I’d like to start participating in testing KiCAD nightly builds and prepare plugins for use with the anticipated release build. I am not yet prepared to build the nightly from source. Is it available as a windows installer? If not, does anyone have any step by step instructions on getting the nightly installed or, if necessary, built on windows (7)?
Awesome. Thank you!! Where would I find the active bug list addressed/attempted in each nightly?
Probably easiest is to look at https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/commits/master and look up the git hash.
I download from http://downloads.kicad.org/windows/nightly/ most days
Something happened on 26/7/17 making the x64 build drop in size 140MB (STEP files dropped?)
The 27/7/17 builds failed completely
What do I have to watch out for if I have simultaneous installs of stable and one or more nightlies?
Not something that I have tried, I have different PCs for Stable and Nightly
The Nightlies are back and normal size again
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Installing them in different folders won’t be enough afai-can-see, as there is a kicad_ini folder under your user name with the program settings:
C:\Users\JonDoe\AppData\Roaming\kicad
I don’t know how tolerant the stables/nightlies are in regards to options in the ini files that they don’t know or that are ‘obsolete’. Starting either one with the other ones ini files could cause all kinds of weird things.
So under windows you either need a VM or login/logout different users (and make sure when you install kicad it’s only for the user and not for anyone on that machine).
PS: I only run nightlies, but not bleeding edge. One needs to get lucky to find one that is ‘pretty stable’ though.
Quite a bit of new features that normally work well once the “lucky nightly” is found. I wish there was a better way to find these.