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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

I do not think we should work on the build script anymore.  If the build
script worked very, very, well, it still doesn't help the vast majority of
our users, and by having the build script, we implicitly sign up for
supporting every user that wants to use it.

Completely honestly, I think that as soon as we have KiCad binary releases,
we should eliminate kicad-install.sh and turn it in to documentation
instead of something expected to be exectuable.  We already *have* a build
script--it's CMake!  If you're not debugging or adding features to KiCad, I
don't think you should have to compile it.

The maintenance of this script has a very real cost--this weekend I spent
most of Saturday setting up a backports PPA instead of working on binary
releases, and someone just reported that the kicad-install.sh script
doesn't work in Fedora 20 because the wx-config script is called
wx-config3.0 or something like that.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L, LLC

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 05:07:05PM +0200, Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote:
> > Hi Nick,
> >
> > Currently kicad-install.sh script does not have "python-wxgtk3.0-dev" in
> > "prerequisite_list".
> > This packages is needed to be able to compile. Please find attached a
> > small to patch for that...
> >
> > Regarding your question I don't know if kicad-install.sh should add the
> PPA.
>
> Why not? That's a great idea! If unsecure you just have to add a question
> yes/no to the script...
>
> --
>
>
> Marco Ciampa
>
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