We should defer this to v6 unless the fix is simple with little or no risk of introducing new bugs. I know it would be nice to have but I could say that about a lot of things. Scope creep will prevent us from ever delivering v5.
Cheers, Wayne On 4/5/2018 12:25 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote: > If we are going to support multiple versions, on the developer side, we > should add a preference versioning to the user configuration directory. > Otherwise, fp-lib-table will being either pointing to v4 or v5 > footprints. Likewise, there are a few preferences that only exist in v5 > and will be lost when v4 saves the preference file. > > To avoid cluttering the config directory, we could place the v5 > configurations in a v5 sub directory. Configurations would be > preferentially loaded from the v5 directory with a fall-back to the v4 > items if v5 items were not found. Configurations would only be saved to > the v5 subdir. > > If we want to support this, we should insert this code before rc2. > Thoughts? > > -S > > 2018-04-04 22:24 GMT-07:00 Strontium <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > On 04/04/18 18:52, Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote: > > So my questions are: > - Is it usefull ? > > > Having both versions be able to be installed side by side is > immensely valuable for an end user, and the development of kicad, in > my opinion. > > The users can "USE" the stable version for their work. They can > also test the Nightly and not worry about it messing with their > work. It should mean that general users have a better chance to > test the new version as it evolves, and they will feel more > involved, even if that involvement is only posting bugs. They don't > have to choose between being on the bleeding edge, and being productive. > > It would be equally useful (maybe even more useful) to have kicad V4 > and V5 installed simultaneously as well. > > Steven > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
