On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:43:24 +0100 Christophe Pisteur <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le jeudi 11 février 2021 à 15:12 +0100, Sergiu Ivanov a écrit : > > Hi Christophe, > > > I don't understand all the nuances of this discussion (I'm sorry), > > > butit seems to me that the problem is, in the case of the > > > developmentversion of freecad, that the sources are not published > > > regularly. Thesources were last published in 2019 (1), while > > > freecad offers anAppimage almost every week. So building something > > > from the sources ofthe development code doesn't add much value to > > > the stable version. Imust certainly be missing something, so once > > > again sorry.Christophe(1) > > > https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/tag/0.19_pre: " > > > Note:The development binaries are built regularly (You may need to > > > expandthe assets tab) . The release date indicates the beginning > > > of the devcycle. The commits indicates how many commits in the dev > > > cycle. Thesource archives (tar.gz and .zip) do not get updated, so > > > they match thecommit of the tag (34a083b) and are therefore > > > obsolete. You can get thelatest source here: > > > https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/archive/master.zip"; > > > > I don't know or use FreeCAD, but it looks like the source code > > isupdated quite regularly on their GitHub repository: > > https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/ > > > > The latest changes seem to date back to several hours. > > I'd say these are the sources from which the development binaries > > arebuilt (at least this is what is usually done). > > My understanding of the sentence > > > The source archives (tar.gz and .zip) do not get updated, so > > > theymatch the commit of the tag (34a083b) and are therefore > > > obsolete. > > > > is that the FreeCAD team don't bother archiving the sources > > bythemselves, given that one can always access the latest versionon > > GitHub. > > -Sergiu > > Sorry for the confusion and thank you for the explanation. > Christophe My bad, I didn't consider that not everyone knows Git. This is probably the example you need: guix build freecad --with-git-url=freecad=https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/ No need to download any tarballs this way.
