Why don't you target a git or bzr tag--probably easier to reuse the work for a "nightlies/fresh" ebuild as well.
Adam Wolf On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Ian Woloschin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hooray for already solved problems! :D Too bad the baby is still > sleeping. Time for new things to solve! > > For the Gentoo ebuild, will the project consider releasing a source > tarball, or is it just going to be a bzr (...git?) tag in the appropriate > repository? I don't think it matters, I believe ebuilds can pull straight > from repositories, but it'd be helpful to know what to target. > > -Ian > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:33 PM Adam Wolf <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Ian, I think you are right. I think everything is already done, except >> me putting the "issue a PR" into Jenkins so it happens periodically. >> >> Adam Wolf >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Ian Woloschin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I think that there should be an easy to grab DMG that can be installed, >>> but it appears to be trivial to use homebrew casks to "automate" the >>> process. Keep in mind, casks are *not* compiling anything, they're just >>> grabbing pre-existing binaries because it makes it "easier" (for CLI folk) >>> to install packages. Biggest benefit is versioning should be automatic, so >>> long as someone here can commit to also releasing a new cask, but that >>> looks like a pretty simple process (though it does add "just one more >>> thing" to the list, which may be undesirable). >>> >>> I'm going to leave the current homebrew cask stuff alone for now since I >>> believe it works "as is" and just needs to be updated once we have a RC DMG. >>> >>> Going to take a look at Gentoo ebuilds this afternoon I think. This >>> might be tough without a tagged release, but I'll see what I can do. >>> >>> -Ian >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:22 PM Adam Wolf <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> The DMGs are not going away and are the primary method for KiCad on OS >>>> X. >>>> >>>> I'm not going to spend my limited time supporting folks who want to >>>> compile KiCad on their own on OS X, but I'm also not going to hide or >>>> obsfucate any of the helper scripts I use to build it. >>>> >>>> On the other hand, it looks like someone else has made a homebrew cask >>>> thing that pulls from the DMGs, which is pretty slick. >>>> >>>> Adam Wolf >>>> Cofounder and Engineer >>>> Wayne and Layne >>>> >>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Andy Peters <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> > On Sep 7, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> > Hi, >>>>> > >>>>> > a small note on homebrew (or, MacPorts) for OS X: >>>>> > The problem is, that you need a special patched wxWidgets for KiCad. >>>>> > So, you can’t (no, you can’t) use the stock one such a package >>>>> system provides - and you probably cannot easily provide your own one >>>>> because it might interfere with the original one. >>>>> > >>>>> > You could probably build and package the custom version of wxWidgets >>>>> within a homebrew/MacPorts recipe for KiCad, but then there is really no >>>>> advantage in using such a system to build yourself (i.e., sharing >>>>> libraries >>>>> across the system). >>>>> > Just take Adam’s nightly builds which do the same (just without a >>>>> recipe). >>>>> >>>>> I’m sure I speak for a lot of Mac users when I say: >>>>> >>>>> We greatly prefer a simple disk image with either an installer or a >>>>> package with the program we can drag to /Applications and libraries to the >>>>> usual install locations. >>>>> >>>>> Homebrew and the like are perhaps fine if people want to build from >>>>> source. Having too many package managers seems to muck things up, and I >>>>> prefer not using any of them. >>>>> >>>>> Just my view, of course. >>>>> >>>>> -a >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 >>>> >>> >>
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