[Digikam-users] How does one use digikam source for casual testing?

Mikolaj Machowski mikmach at wp.pl
Thu May 8 19:15:47 BST 2008


Dnia Thursday 08 of May 2008, Paul Waldo napisaƂ:
> Hi all,
>
> I have finally gotten digikam to compile from source, but I am
> hesitating before running it. I would like to check out the bleeding
> edge features, but I certainly don't want an obscure bug walking through
> my image tree deleting every image in sight. :-O I also want to maintain
> a stable version for day-to-day use.
>
> So, for those who have their feet in both the stable and beta worlds,
> how do you do it without worrying about bugs permanently removing your
> priceless photos? Thanks for any tips!

From my experience svn 3.5 branch is very stable (0.9.x). Personally had
not any problems with photos themselves, just minor glitches with
database (encoding related).

m.

ps. Backup is always good thing.




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