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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 23:09:53 +0100
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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.

I am not absolutely sure, but I really think that one of the official
gEDA developers asked in the past to not include the odd numbered
releases into distributions.

If this policy has changed, let us know, we may then include 1.9 in
official Gentoo distribution.


JAMES HARIG asked about the term gaf:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDA
"
Within the gEDA Suite, gEDA/gaf ("gaf" stands for "gschem and friends")
is the smaller subset of tools grouped together under the gEDA name and
maintained directly by the gEDA project's founders.
"