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Subject: Re: [geda-user] How unstable is gEDA/gaf 1.9.0?
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Stefan Salewski <mail AT ssalewski DOT de> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 14:50 -0600, John Griessen wrote:
>> On 02/19/2014 11:52 AM, JAMES HARIG wrote:
>> > How unstable is the gEDA/gaf 1.9.0?  Are people using it?  The geda/gaf documentation references utilities (for example 'gaf'),
>> > which are not in the 1.8 release.  Is there a real benefit to using the newer version?
>>
>> Sure.  It has the most bugs fixed.  I always update before starting a new project.
>> There's little risk of something broken badly in the latest code.
>
> Please note, it makes not much sense to call 1.9 an unstable development
> version and at the same time advertise its use to ordinary people.

True.  While we're being honest I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say the
gEDA docs are coherently organized.  Not that I don't love gEDA script it
all day etc.  but the fan mails in response to this guys Qs are a little much.

Britton