old releases

[Robert Lancaster]

Hi Hy,

Yes, to all of these questions.  The Mac DMGs after 3.5.0 are all stored on the server and you can always download the older ones.  And if one is lost from the server, I do have my own backups.  I know there is a page somewhere that has an index to the old downloads, but I can’t seem to find it right now.  The same is true for Windows, the old versions back to 3.5.0 are still on the server.

There are older releases on Github for the source code:  https://github.com/KDE/kstars/releases <https://github.com/KDE/kstars/releases>. But I think this is a bit out of date since the latest one I see there is 2.9.8

There are more recent stable branches on Github: https://github.com/KDE/kstars/branches/active <https://github.com/KDE/kstars/branches/active>  but I don’t know if this is the best source for them.

Thats about all that I know about it.

Rob

> On Jul 2, 2021, at 2:14 PM, Hy Murveit <murveit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> To preface, I know nothing about ppa's etc, so forgive me if this is a dumb question/request:
> 
> Is there a way to allow users to revert to old releases (e.g. a combination of indi and kstars)? A very common complaint is:  "I just updated and my setup broke and I can go back to my good system". Sure, they could have backed up, but could we provide this service to them? BTW, of course, users who compile can do this in a straight-forward manner, but I'm assuming that those who compile are not those making that kind of complaint.
> 
> I see that Rob distributes his Mac DMGs as a download, so at least for the Mac it would seem straight-forward to have a web-page with old DMG links. 
> 
> Hy

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