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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My apologies if this is a double post.


I believe the consensus last time this was brought up was to set up the git
mirror, which syncs every ten minutes.  It can be found at the Kicad
account on Github.  If you feel strongly about it, you can switch
kicad-install.sh to use it instead.

However, the vast majority of our users should not need to build it, and
kicad-install is not the way we want our users installing KiCad in the
future.

I've personally spent maybe 15 hours in the last month making kicad-install
work on different Linux releases, and it is holding me back from getting
binary releases done, so I am reducing my work on supporting kicad-install
to a minimum.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Andrew Zonenberg <
azonenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Unfortunately I don't have time to devote to migration either. I do vote
> in favor of a switch to git though.
>
> On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 13:05 +1100, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >         On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:59:20PM -0700, Jake wrote:
> >         [...]
> >         > So i deleted the folder entirely with rm -rf
> >         ~/kicad_sources/kicad-lib.bzr/
> >         >
> >         > and when i ran the script again, now it seems to be working.
> >         >
> >         > i don't know anything about how bzr works, i am just
> >         competent with
> >         > git, so hopefully some bash scripting and bzr experts can
> >         think of a
> >         > way to restructure the install script to more consistently
> >         deal with
> >         > incomplete installations.  I think that a less intrepid user
> >         than me
> >         > (imagine!) would either have to delete all of
> >         ~/kicad_sources and
> >         > start over, or give up entirely.
> >         >
> >         > please let me know if i should post this problem in the
> >         bugtracker
> >         > or something else to make it easier to deal with, or if i
> >         have done
> >         > it right.
> >
> >         Bazaar is virtually dead. Its userbase decrease day by day.
> >         There are some bugs in it that presumably will never be fixed.
> >
> >         For example, and this seems to be this case, if you stop a
> >         "bzr up"
> >         command abruptly, chances are that it will not be able to
> >         recover by
> >         himself, and you have to delete all and restart downloading
> >         afresh.
> >
> >         I keep on thinking that a git migration of all kicad project
> >         repos should
> >         be considered for sometime in the (near?) future...
> >
> >         bye
> >
> >         --
> >
> >
> >         Marco Ciampa
> >
> >         I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.
> >
> >
> >
> > I have no problem with using git, but we would need some volunteers
> > with experience to perform the migration, test, and synchronize with
> > bzr until the devs agree that the migration is a success and are ready
> > to switch. This is no small job since the version history must be
> > preserved and the bugtracker must also be migrated (preferably with no
> > loss of information).
> >
> >
> > - Cirilo
> >
> >
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> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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