Am 12.04.18 um 18:33 schrieb Reece R. Pollack: > Yes, I'm going a bit off the original topic. Maybe we should start a new > thread. But I see an issue arising in the future where people are going > to want to install V5 but not give up V4 quite yet. For example, board > houses that accept KiCad board files may not be ready to make a hard cut > to V5 until they're sure it's really ready, but they'd like to be able > to accept V5 board files. Right now that would be difficult without > compiling from source and installing in a separate directory. > > I'd hate to see KiCad miss this chance to embrace multiple installation > support just because we're thinking only of the testing environment.
This is mainly no problem of the upstream KiCad project, it's more a problem then on the distributions side. Even right now it's possible to build both versions and install them independently on your system. -- Regards Carsten _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
