Hello, I work with the FreeCAD project and have been working on getting OCCT 7.2.0 back into Debian (for those not aware, it was removed from license reasons and replaced with OCE.) However development on OCE has slowed while the pace has picked up for OCCT, resulting in several improvements we'll need for our upcoming 0.17 release.
Since deal.II depends on OCE, I wanted to reach out to all of you to let you know that at some point Debian will likely want to replace liboce in the repositories altogether with libocct. FreeCAD, netgen, and deal.II are the only dependencies there that I know of; since FreeCAD uses netgen, I've already successfully built the first 2 from libocct. However, I am not familiar with deal.II so my introductory attempt to build using libocct didn't work. While I will eventually have some time to look at it further, I was hoping that by announcing this in advance someone in the deal.II community could take a look before there's any pressure for the removal of liboce in Debian. By the way, the packages are not in Debian Sid yet, but I hope/assume they will be soon. For the time being they need to be built from the git repository at https://salsa.debian.org/kkremitzki-guest/opencascade. -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
