On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 14:54, Woodrow Stool woodrow.stool@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the clarification Lex. Actually this ends up being my bad - I recalled there was a .deb file on the Geany site, but checking now I see it is source for Linux and installers for MacOS and Windows. There was a PPA somewhere that had .deb versions of the latest releases, I'll have to check my notes and recall where that was.
Its not been updated for 1.37 yet https://launchpad.net/~geany-dev/+archive/ubuntu/ppa note despite the implications of the name, its also maintained by an external packager (the same one as debian), not the project devs.
So let me ask you a hypothetical question - assuming a .deb distribution comes to light, what do you expect would happen if I sudo dpkg -i geany-something.deb with 1.36 already installed? Do I need to delete 1.36 first?
Remember the distro specific package files are made by people outside the project who are experts in the intricacies of doing that, but its my amateur understanding that apt and debs take care of all that if its installing a new version over an old version.
Same goes with building from source - delete the old version first?
Won't hurt to uninstall (not simply delete stuff, especially in system directories), but probably not needed going from 1.36 to 1.37. Note the only difference between 1.37 and 1.37.1 is only relevant to windows, not linux, so don't sweat the x.x.1.
Cheers Lex
Thanks again for all your help, and thanks very much to all those contributors that made Geany happen.
- Woody