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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne,

You have made my week.  Thanks!

Add a few more to the "beers owed" total.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L
On Apr 11, 2015 12:29 PM, "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm going to remove this script after the stable release.  It has caused
> nothing but headaches.  Asking normal users to build from source has
> been an issue from the beginning.  That philosophy was no well thought
> out in my opinion.  Package builders do not need this script and we've
> got nightly builds for most of the major platforms.  Developers should
> not be using this script either since they should know how to install
> the dependencies on their system and build directly from the source so I
> see no reason to keep it.
>
> On 4/1/2015 1:24 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> > Well, I someone sent a patch a while ago with no replies addin -y to
> > assume yes to all. But  it has been discussed before to just get rid
> > of the script, because it makes more trouble than benefit.
> >
> > 2015-04-01 19:20 GMT+02:00 Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> Thank you.
> >> From the original list:
> >>>
> >>> 1.  install_prerequisites()This function is using a single command
> >>> "apt-get install" for ALL of the software packages.  It would work
> >>> smoothly if ALL of the packages were available.  Unfurtunately, in the
> >>> Ubuntu 14.04 case, python-wxgtk3.0 is not yet available and the command
> >>> will fail for ALL of the packages.  Thus libwxgtk3.0-dev will not be
> >>> installed at all (which will cause another error that needs an improved
> >>> error handling.  See #2).
> >>>     Suggestion:  Change to use a local loop to install each of the
> >>> packages     so that command "apt-get install" fails only for a single
> >>> package, thus     avoiding failing for ALL.
> >>> 2.  CMake check listWhen libwxgtk3.0-dev is not installed, due to the
> >>> faillure in #1 aboe, the CMake check part stops short during compiling,
> >>> but kicad-install.sh does not detect this failed compiling and just
> >>> continue to install or copy parts files and doc files into the
> destnated
> >>> directory.  At the end, it seems all install succeeded.  But there is
> NO
> >>> "kicad" binary installed at all, much less of the rest of the binaries.
> >>> This situation has caused confussions to me a few times already.
> >>
> >>
> >> It still seems that the loop is a bit silly, though. You have to sit
> there
> >> authorizing each and every install. Since python-wxgtk3.0 is apparently
> >> optional, how about just installing *that* one individually, and then
> >> installing the rest with a single command?
> >>
> >> You could even test whether it's available and only attempt to install
> it if
> >> it is, or perhaps print an explanation of the consequences of not
> having it.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 03:34:56PM +0200, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> >>>
> >>> https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg15134.html
> >>>
> >>> 2015-04-01 9:53 GMT+02:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>>>
> >>>> Search the mailing list archive. Try to also use the keyword fedora
> when
> >>>> searching. I am currently not on a proper machine.
> >>>>
> >>>> Den 01/04/2015 01.48 skrev "Chris Pavlina" <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Does anyone know why kicad-install.sh does this?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> for p in ${prerequisite_list}
> >>>>> do
> >>>>>    sudo apt-get install $p || exit 1
> >>>>> done
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Rather than something along the lines of this:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> echo "${prerequisite_list}" | xargs -d"\n" sudo apt-get install
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The long prompts for permission to install each package have, erm,
> >>>>> aggravated some users, and adding -y isn't quite the right choice
> IMHO
> >>>>> as it
> >>>>> removes the user's ability to veto the package list.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any chance of changing it?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Chris
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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