[Gambas-user] How can I force linux mint to upgrade gambas3 to the last update?

Gianluigi bagonergi at ...626...
Sun Jun 11 22:02:33 CEST 2017


+1 👍
I also use the version of Gambas compiled from sources without any problems☺
Regards
Gianluigi


2017-06-11 19:04 GMT+02:00 Tobias Boege <taboege at ...626...>:

> On Sun, 11 Jun 2017, Fernando Cabral wrote:
> > Tobi
> >
> > Excuse both my ignorance and poor communication ability. I prefer using
> the
> > latest stable version, which I expect be the case when I resort to the
> PPA
> > I am presently using. Now, I was not aware that those revisions are still
> > considered unstable. So, I expected (wrongly, I see) that they would be
> > incorporated into the stable version.
> >
> > So, I will stay with the stable version and wait until the changes are
> made
> > available for general use. Meanwhile, I'll keep using the workaround for
> > the keyboard locking issue.
> >
>
> Ok, but just a quick remark. "Unstable" is an unclear term. I, for one,
> always run an unstable version of Gambas (compiled from source) and usually
> have no problems. But once in a while it happens that something is broken
> in the development version because of a change that was not fully thought
> through; or you install a revision in the middle of someone making a bunch
> of commits, before he is done with all his changes, and Gambas doesn't even
> compile completely.
>
> If you want to test a bug fix (or go on bug hunt yourself), you have to use
> the unstable version, because the stable version is supposed(TM) to not
> have
> bugs but to have confirmed bug fixes. Unstable usually isn't as bad as it
> sounds.
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
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