On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 18:28 +0000, r wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Peter Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I've stressfully installed and then downgraded my own Ubuntu Jaunty > > system. I have not got access to an intrepid or Hardy box to test those > > backports. > > Thanks! > > This installs and works fine on Ubuntu Intrepid. Haven't tested it > extensively though. > > Is it an automatic build or are you going to package "stable" git > revisions manually?
Good to hear that it installs ok. The whole idea is still pretty new (an experiment), and the work I did so far was manual. It might go away - especially if people "abuse" the packages for non-testing use, and expect them to be stable. (This said, I do all my electronic design work with git HEAD gEDA). The idea is to make various pieces of code available for those who want to try it and give feedback, not necessarily the very latest code, or even git HEAD. I could, for example, make some of the experimental cairo available as a package. I don't want to make the PPA build process fully automatic. We are careful, but sometimes we do break things when committing changes. I want to keep an extra (albeit thin) layer of QA between building directly from GIT, and installing from the testing PPA. I might have waited for 1.5.2 as the first PPA package, but having got the Debian packaging to work locally, I decided to try it out with a snapshot. (Which did help me iron other build problems on the buildd). Another benefit of the PPA is picking up packaging problems without distributions having to package up our unstable releases - something which is definitely not desired by the gEDA developers. Best regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
