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[Ian Woloschin <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think that there should be an easy to grab DMG that can be installed, but
it appears to be trivial to use homebrew casks to "automate" the process.
Keep in mind, casks are *not* compiling anything, they're just grabbing
pre-existing binaries because it makes it "easier" (for CLI folk) to
install packages.  Biggest benefit is versioning should be automatic, so
long as someone here can commit to also releasing a new cask, but that
looks like a pretty simple process (though it does add "just one more
thing" to the list, which may be undesirable).

I'm going to leave the current homebrew cask stuff alone for now since I
believe it works "as is" and just needs to be updated once we have a RC DMG.

Going to take a look at Gentoo ebuilds this afternoon I think.  This might
be tough without a tagged release, but I'll see what I can do.

-Ian

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:22 PM Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> The DMGs are not going away and are the primary method for KiCad on OS X.
>
> I'm not going to spend my limited time supporting folks who want to
> compile KiCad on their own on OS X, but I'm also not going to hide or
> obsfucate any of the helper scripts I use to build it.
>
> On the other hand, it looks like someone else has made a homebrew cask
> thing that pulls from the DMGs, which is pretty slick.
>
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer
> Wayne and Layne
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On Sep 7, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > a small note on homebrew (or, MacPorts) for OS X:
>> > The problem is, that you need a special patched wxWidgets for KiCad.
>> > So, you can’t (no, you can’t) use the stock one such a package system
>> provides - and you probably cannot easily provide your own one because it
>> might interfere with the original one.
>> >
>> > You could probably build and package the custom version of wxWidgets
>> within a homebrew/MacPorts recipe for KiCad, but then there is really no
>> advantage in using such a system to build yourself (i.e., sharing libraries
>> across the system).
>> > Just take Adam’s nightly builds which do the same (just without a
>> recipe).
>>
>> I’m sure I speak for a lot of Mac users when I say:
>>
>> We greatly prefer a simple disk image with either an installer or a
>> package with the program we can drag to /Applications and libraries to the
>> usual install locations.
>>
>> Homebrew and the like are perhaps fine if people want to build from
>> source. Having too many package managers seems to muck things up, and I
>> prefer not using any of them.
>>
>> Just my view, of course.
>>
>> -a
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