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[Ian Woloschin <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hooray for already solved problems!  :D  Too bad the baby is still
sleeping.  Time for new things to solve!

For the Gentoo ebuild, will the project consider releasing a source
tarball, or is it just going to be a bzr (...git?) tag in the appropriate
repository?  I don't think it matters, I believe ebuilds can pull straight
from repositories, but it'd be helpful to know what to target.

-Ian

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:33 PM Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Ian, I think you are right.  I think everything is already done, except me
> putting the "issue a PR" into Jenkins so it happens periodically.
>
> Adam Wolf
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Ian Woloschin <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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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