[Digikam-devel] Digikam packages and latest versions

[Leonardo Giordani]

Hi all,

I would share with you a big issue I experience with digikam, hoping to
start an improvement in digikam itself.

Digikam is evolving very fast, and this is a clear sign of both the
excellence of the product and the of the community of developers.
Unfortunately it seems to evolve too fast from a user point of view.

Being time-boxed by my official work this year I no more contributed to
digikam as developer, but I always use it and I constantly experienced the
annoyance of not being able to install the latest version of digikam.

I'm currently on Ubuntu Precise 12.04 and the digikam package contains
version 2.5.0. Ubuntu Quantal (out in a month) will contain version 2.8.0.
At the beginning of september digikam reached 2.9.0, 3.0.0 is under
development, and I really would like to use the features you people add to
this great software (and the bugfixes!).

You could tell me to change my distro: this is a solution, but I don't
think it touches the real point. After all I can, as developer, change my
distro, run a virtual machine, build the software by my own, etc.

But as user I simply would like to install that latest, fantastic, version
of digikam. Should I say "just like Windows users do?": yes, in this cases
I really see a difference between me and a Windows user, and in the
comparison I lose.

I really don't have an idea about a possible solution, so I'm just sharing
my thoughts with you developers, since I really value your work on digikam.
I would be happy to hear from you what you think about it and if some of
you would be interested in finding a solution for what I think is a real
issue for a standard user (not a developer).

Thank you very much in advance.

Leo



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Leonardo Giordani
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