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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Philip Axer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 09:26 -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
>
>
> > *THE ANSWER*
> I don't see why we would need this kind of effort!

You mean the 1/2 hour I spent trying to help someone?

Please speak up if you think my time was worth it. Otherwise I can sure 
find better ways to spend it.

I think Axer doesn't even understand the problem, let alone the solution.

Dick

> kicad compiles with
> 1.37 which can be considered as "old" (as stated before boost is
> currently at 1.40)! People who want to compile a piece of code by hand
> should be able to handle the dependencies on their own. Especially if it
> is THAT easy (ubuntu jaunty: sudo apt-get install libboost1.37-dev)
> It is totally the wrong spot to work on simplifying the compilation
> procedure in order to enable the "ordinary" end-user to build his own
> packages. Why not putting the effort in building kicad packages which
> automatically solve the dependency issue. I'm pretty sure that most
> users are not interested in the code anyways.
>
> Well speaking of which, I have set up a ppa on launchpad containing up
> to date kicad packages. These are nightly builds, thus UNSTABLE!. You
> can expect daily updates (if there have been commits):
>
> https://launchpad.net/~paxer/+archive/ppa
>
> It's still in a testing phase, so I'd be glad for feedback.
>
> Cheers,
> -Philip
>
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