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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/20/2014 11:43 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> 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

I couldn't have said it better myself.  I support this idea 100%.  We
already have compile instructions for each platform.  Some of them are a
little out of date but I would prefer that folks building from source
use the compiling instructions rather than kicad-install.sh.  It's not
just the cost of maintaining this script, it's obvious that we have
non-developers trying to use this script to build kicad from source and
it's creating a lot of extra build support work for developers.  I would
prefer our limit developer resources be spend writing code and bug
fixing than user support.

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