I agree with the sentiment. I would avoid building packages for every
distro out there.
want to try Kicad for the first time.
use the product let alone build it.
Post by Stephen R Phillips cyberman_phillips-/***@public.gmane.org [kicad-users]Gentoo Linux 64 bit here.
Are you asking about binary releases or ... what? Seems a bit murky too me.
I cringe at the thought of making a build system THAT specific as to
target very specific 'flavors' of linux that have a fairly bastardized
installation system (it's designed to make things easy for the maintainer
not the user). Anyhow that's just my view of those distributions.
I use Gentoo (did use slackware by the way). I suggest being sure a
standard Cmake will work on a plain unix box with X and a few libraries.
It's good practice not to make it for example "Windows 8.1 ARM only
compatible" as that's kind of how this sounds like it's heading. The
current build system allowed me to install things fairly quickly and with
only minor pain at a command line prompt while I did something else. So I
kind of like it as it gives me some feedback as to what went wrong.
I am thankful for this group (as I built KiCAD from the bazarre download
from KiCAD dev site not the Gentoo specific patchs). There does seem to be
a fair bit of decay in maintenance on what users need to do in the
documentation online to do that as sites have changed and some of the
options and version information has changed. Also the same goes with the
libraries. I'm just begining to do anything more than mere schematics and
PCB generation (IE plugin writting is what I am trying).
I remember finding a build script and noted it was way to specific to
distributions to be useful too me. It appeared it could use a bit of divide
and conquer in the scripting end of things, however not wanting to create
"yet another build script" (YABS?) I just did things a bit more by hand. It
is possible not to need an ebuild and use your build script to use Gentoo's
built in tools (they are pretty easy too use honestly) to do the same.
Gentoo I suppose is a bit alien too many but ... it actually works just
fine, for me at least.
Just my thoughts, good fortune, I am at the unfortunate end of the
spectrum so my opinion probably doesn't matter much.
Note I am not so damned lazy however I need hand holding to install KiCAD,
I might need direction however (I get lost sometimes).
Stephen R. Phillips was here
Please be advised what was said may be absolutely wrong, and hereby this
disclaimer follows. I reserve the right to be wrong and admit I was wrong
in front of the entire world. It won't be the first or the last in all
likelyness.
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