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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I hope users are no longer building kicad from source.  We tried that
already and it was a disaster.  The build options should reflect the
dependencies available on the platform it's being built on.  Whether or
not an optional feature is ready for release is not relevant.  For
example if ngspice was not built with the --with-libngspice option
(which apparently on arch linux it is not), setting KICAD_SPICE=ON will
fail during build config.  It is up to the system package developer to
determine if kicad should be built with spice support.

On 12/6/2017 9:04 AM, Kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
> Are we not in feature freeze, the features that I enabled by default is
> from my understanding the ones that will be built into the official
> ones. And yes, the people that are compiling a non-standard install
> shuld be savvy enough to be change the compilation settings. That is why
> i think the default build should reflect the ones being run by the less
> savvy users.
> 
>  -Kristoffer
> 
> On 12/06/2017 11:31 AM, Simon Richter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 06.12.2017 11:12, Kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
>>
>>> I do not see why anyone is even objecting to this? Where is the logic at
>>> having a default build that does not correspond to any of the official
>>> packages?!
>>
>> That usually happens because the nightly builds enable all the
>> experimental features to allow people to test them, but the default is
>> still "disabled" because they introduce extra dependencies and make life
>> difficult for people compiling from source.
>>
>> The default for new options needs to be decided before the release, I
>> think, and "release" packages should go with that.
>>
>>     Simon
>>
>>
>>
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