I can confirm that many users would appreciate the possibility to run several precompiled versions. It has come up in the user forums. Using a virtual machine for that purpose has been suggested as a solution, but it's not very convenient.
One possible problem is the configuration compatibility. It might be a good idea to have a command line switch to use a different configuration files/directories so that the installations could be completely independent. Also the env variables may be a problem. Maybe they could be overriden with command line switches, too? Eeli Kaikkonen 2018-04-04 13:52 GMT+03:00 Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reyn...@gmail.com>: > Dear All, > > > Since I provide PPA (daily build for Ubuntu) for KiCad, I receive some > requests about installing daily build packages in parallel with stable > version. > With next version (V5) I think it can be useful... > FreeCad provide this kind of feature and you are able to run both > version in parallel. > > For testing that I had created a dedicated PPA: > ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-dev-daily > (to add with sudo add-apt-repository ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-dev-daily) > > Once added, you are able to install a new package "kicad-daily" that > won't conflict with existing "kicad" packages. > All files are installed on a separate folder and commands became > "something-daily". For example kicad-daily or pcbnew-daily... > > So my questions are: > - Is it usefull ? > - Is it a bad idea/stupid :( ? > - If you test it, are you able to find some limitations/bugs ? > - Perhaps to have is plainly functional some modifications are needed. > What modifications ? > > > For the moment, you can't run in same time two versions (or there are > some error messages...) anyway both are installed and easily "runnable"... > > > Please give your comments, feedbacks... > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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