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Johannes Thyssen Tishman <li...@thyssentishman.com> wrote:
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> Sep 17, 2023 22:08:53 Johannes Thyssen Tishman <li...@thyssentishman.com>:
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> > Apologies for the poor formatting. I had 'textwidth' set to 80
> > characters. Fixed below.
> >
> > Johannes Thyssen Tishman <li...@thyssentishman.com> wrote:
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> attached is both an update for CGAL from version 4.14.2 to the latest
> >> 5.6 and a revision to OpenSCAD to work with the CGAL update. Note that
> >> these are to be imported together to keep OpenSCAD from breaking.
> >>
> >> Despite being actively developed, OpenSCAD hasn't seen a release since
> >> 2021. Until now, OpenSCAD is CGAL's only consumer, which has allowed
> >> CGAL to become outdated without causing any issues. However the latest
> >> version of the recently imported PrusaSlicer also requires CGAL, but
> >> will not work with the old version we have in ports.
> >>
> >> Regarding the OpenSCAD revision, the master branch already depends on
> >> newer versions of CGAL which means that we can simply backport some
> >> commits to update CGAL. That is basically all what the attached diff
> >> does. Most if not all new patches should be fine to drop once OpenSCAD
> >> makes a release.
> >>
> >> Now for the CGAL update, since version 5.0 CGAL is a header-only
> >> library which can be installed without compiling. I've included only
> >> the essential dependencies[1] and left all other optional dependencies
> >> up to the software using CGAL that depends on them. Besides building a
> >> couple of the examples provided in CGAL's source, I'm not sure how to
> >> judge the quality of the port. I also blindly assumed that the
> >> 'BROKEN-mips64' line could be removed as there is no compilation
> >> needed anymore. I'd be interested to know if this update unbreaks
> >> OpenSCAD in sparc64.
> >>
> >> Any feedback or OK's would be very appreciated. Both 'portcheck' and
> >> 'make port-lib-depends-check' are happy with the new changes in both
> >> ports (the latter has some complains about OpenSCAD's port, but I
> >> assumed it could be ignored since it's from a previous update). I
> >> tested some examples from OpenSCAD and they seem to work just fine,
> >> but I'd appreciate some testing from someone who actually uses it.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> Johannes
> >>
> >> [1] https://doc.cgal.org/latest/Manual/thirdparty.html
