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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Alain Mouette wrote:
> Hi Dick,
>
> Thanks for your answer, but is to help me USE boost. I downloaded boos, 
> it compiled to 500MB in my drive...

Maybe you did not compile enough! Keep compiling. The more the better.

> I want to make a *NEWBIE GUIDE TO KICAD* which nobody seems to care. I 
> cannot ask a newbie to install boost from scratch, he will just turn 
> back to Windows and more talk to me...
>
> cmake is another problem by itself, it is one more packade to install 
> from scratch, but at least it does it gracefully...
>
> A freiend of mine did find a tutorial to install boost 1.37: he added 
> jaunty repository, installed boost 1.37, removed jaunty. This just seems 
> too dangerous... but i shows that it works.
>
> *IF SOMEONE WOULD CARE TO MAKE A LIST OF FILES LINKS* or at least help 
> me doing it.
>
> and I hate boost all the time more.
>
> Alain
>
>
> Dick Hollenbeck escreveu:
>
> > 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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