On 10/20/2014 11:43 AM, Adam Wolf wrote: > Hi folks, > > I do not think we should work on the build script anymore. If the build > script worked very, very, well, it still doesn't help the vast majority > of our users, and by having the build script, we implicitly sign up for > supporting every user that wants to use it. > > Completely honestly, I think that as soon as we have KiCad binary > releases, we should eliminate kicad-install.sh and turn it in to > documentation instead of something expected to be exectuable. We > already *have* a build script--it's CMake! If you're not debugging or > adding features to KiCad, I don't think you should have to compile it. > > The maintenance of this script has a very real cost--this weekend I > spent most of Saturday setting up a backports PPA instead of working on > binary releases, and someone just reported that the kicad-install.sh > script doesn't work in Fedora 20 because the wx-config script is called > wx-config3.0 or something like that. > > Adam Wolf > Cofounder and Engineer > W&L, LLC
I couldn't have said it better myself. I support this idea 100%. We already have compile instructions for each platform. Some of them are a little out of date but I would prefer that folks building from source use the compiling instructions rather than kicad-install.sh. It's not just the cost of maintaining this script, it's obvious that we have non-developers trying to use this script to build kicad from source and it's creating a lot of extra build support work for developers. I would prefer our limit developer resources be spend writing code and bug fixing than user support. > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Marco Ciampa <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 05:07:05PM +0200, Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote: > > Hi Nick, > > > > Currently kicad-install.sh script does not have "python-wxgtk3.0-dev" in > > "prerequisite_list". > > This packages is needed to be able to compile. Please find attached a > > small to patch for that... > > > > Regarding your question I don't know if kicad-install.sh should add the > PPA. > > Why not? That's a great idea! If unsecure you just have to add a > question > yes/no to the script... > > -- > > > Marco Ciampa > > I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it. > > +--------------------+ > | Linux User #78271 | > | FSFE fellow #364 | > +--------------------+ > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
