[Digikam-users] Re: Accidentally installed digiKam 1.9 - is it stable enough for production?

[Elle Stone]

Gilles, thanks. Elle

On 1/26/11, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1.9.0 is just 1.8.0 with some little fix.
>
> 1.x serie is considerated as stable for production. No new features
> are added, only bugfixes are applied. Look in project/NEWS files for
> details.
>
> 2.0.0 still in beta stage. It's not considerated as unstable. Not all
> features haven't be tested yet. But all fixes from 1.x series are
> backported to 2.x.
>
> We plan to release 1.9 in one month and that all. next version will be
> 2.0 planed around may if all will be fine.
>
> To resume : using svn trunk source code (1.x serie) as production is fine.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2011/1/26 Elle Stone <l.elle.stone at gmail.com>:
>>
>> I was running digiKam 1.7 (Ubuntu 10.10). But it was using exiv2 0.19 and
>> a
>> correspondingly older libkexiv2. Other efforts to upgrade exiv2 failed. So
>> I
>> followed the directions to "Download and Install SVN KDE4 along stable
>> version" and found that I had installed digiKam 1.9.
>>
>> Is 1.9 from 2011-Jan-25 stable enough to use as "production"? Or should I
>> reinstall 1.7 or try 1.8 instead?
>>
>> I also got 2.0 beta running, following
>> http://ubuntuku.org/22/how-to-install-compile-digikam-2-0-0-beta-from-source/
>> (except installing in /usr/local), but I overwrote it when I installed
>> 1.9,
>> and 2.0 wasn't standalone. I wouldn't mind helping to test the beta (my
>> goodness that versioning stuff writes a lot of metadata!), if I could keep
>> a
>> stable version running alongside, along with using exiv2 0.21 - not sure
>> how
>> to proceed.
>>
>> Elle
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