I'm looking at various distros. I installed Ubuntu in Boxes. Then using Software Boutique installed 'Software' (a REALLY stupid name). Searched 'Software' for openscad, found openscad-nightly, installed it. 'Software' lists version 0+git.52c7ac3, updated 08/31/19. See image below. When run it shows as 2019.03.31. I note the various instructions on the download page, but won't most users do what I just did? <http://forum.openscad.org/file/t359/Screenshot_at_2019-08-31_16-22-43.png> ----- Admin - email* me if you need anything, or if I've done something stupid... * click on my MichaelAtOz label, there is a link to email me. Unless specifically shown otherwise above, my contribution is in the Public Domain; to the extent possible under law, I have waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to this work. Obviously inclusion of works of previous authors is not included in the above. The TPP is no simple “trade agreement.” Fight it! http://www.ourfairdeal.org/ time is running out! -- Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/

I think this is the version of openscad that someone put on the ubuntu snap store. If so, it runs inside of "snap" sandboxing. It probably works okay on most people's machines. On my system, the sandboxing is buggy and prevents access to the GPU, so the graphics don't work. Also, you can't read or write files outside of your home directory. So, Snap sandboxing is buggy and broken, and they won't let you put a non-sandboxed version of the app on the snap store without going through some kind of qualification process. Most of the snaps I've downloaded don't work on my machine. "Blender" is the one exception: the Blender foundation managed to convince the snap people to let them upload a non-sandboxed executable. Doug Moen. On Sat, Aug 31, 2019, at 2:46 AM, MichaelAtOz wrote: > I'm looking at various distros. > I installed Ubuntu in Boxes. > Then using Software Boutique installed 'Software' (a REALLY stupid name). > Searched 'Software' for openscad, found openscad-nightly, installed it. > 'Software' lists version 0+git.52c7ac3, updated 08/31/19. See image below. > When run it shows as 2019.03.31. > > I note the various instructions on the download page, but won't most users > do what I just did? > > <http://forum.openscad.org/file/t359/Screenshot_at_2019-08-31_16-22-43.png> > > > > ----- > Admin - email* me if you need anything, or if I've done something stupid... > > * click on my MichaelAtOz label, there is a link to email me. > > Unless specifically shown otherwise above, my contribution is in the > Public Domain; to the extent possible under law, I have waived all > copyright and related or neighbouring rights to this work. Obviously > inclusion of works of previous authors is not included in the above. > > The TPP is no simple “trade agreement.” Fight it! > http://www.ourfairdeal.org/ time is running out! > -- > Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >

On 31.08.19 08:46, MichaelAtOz wrote: > 'Software' lists version 0+git.52c7ac3, updated 08/31/19. See image below. > When run it shows as 2019.03.31. > I have no idea where that "updated" date is coming from. The snap packages are built automatically for each check-in on github (master branch) and are published to the "edge" channel. From time to time I manually push to "stable". I don't know if there's a sensible way to actually have different branches go to those different channel. So if someone has some insight into how to automatically publish the master branch to "edge" and the 2019.05 branch to "beta" that would be great. ciao, Torsten.