Awesome, thanks for the heads up. I will consider the scope of this project as well.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 12:30 AM Paco Esteban <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Justin, > > On Thu, 04 Jun 2020, Justin Noor wrote: > > > Hi @ports, > > > > Is there anyone working on FreeCAD? It's not in /usr/ports/cad, and I > > searched the mailing list and did not find anything fruitful. If not, > would > > like to give it a shot if possible - this would be my first port. If > there > > is anyone working on it, please let me know how I can contribute. > > > > Thank you > > I kind of started to work on that some time ago. I have to admit that > I haven't put a lot of time into it lately. > > In any case, this is a huge port, not sure it's the best approach for > the first contribution. > > I would recommend you pick one from here: > > > https://portroach.openbsd.org/the%20openbsd%20ports%20mailing-list%20%[email protected]%3E.html > > And try to update it. That helps a lot to the project and will help you > become more familiar with the ports tree. > > That said, if you still want to work on FreeCAD, I have a work in > progress here: > > https://git.e1e0.net/openbsd-wip/ > > I decided to make it public when I started to get a bit bored of it. > Maybe your contributions make me engage again. ;-) > > What you'll find there is a (still) non-functional attempt of FreeCAD, > and 2 of the non ported dependencies already done (graphics/libvtk and > math/libmedc). > > Keep in mind that this has not been validated, and there are probably > many errors that should be fixed, but at least the 2 dependencies build > and install and the freecad port picks them up when attempting to build. > > At this point it fails because it lacks coin3D which is not finished. > > I also recommend you take a look here: > > https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Third_Party_Libraries > > That will help you to see the magnitude of the task :-) > > Feel free to send your progress here, or to me directly. I'm also very > interested to see FreeCAD included in the ports tree, but never worked > on a c++ graphical port so my progress is slow ... > > Cheers, > > -- > Paco Esteban. > 0x5818130B8A6DBC03 >
