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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just looked and the 5.1.10 windows build is using OCE.  I thought we 
switched over to OCC for msys2 builds but apparently not.  I have 
switched to OCC on my windows msys2 builds.  I think we should switch 
the msys2 5.1 builds to OCC because it resolves some issues.

Wayne

On 5/17/2021 3:21 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> After reviewing the thread that Nick linked 
> (https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/6198 
> <https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/6198>) I recall this 
> discussion more.
>
> I think that we should remove OCE altogether.  The existing versions 
> have bugs that we cannot fix and it is fully deprecated at the source 
> repository (https://github.com/tpaviot/oce/releases 
> <https://github.com/tpaviot/oce/releases>) in that it only tags upstream 
> releases and hasn't released any updates since 2018.
>
> Keeping OCE in the build tree as an option is just asking for headaches 
> that we can avoid in v6.
>
> -Seth
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 12:07 PM Steven A. Falco <stevenfalco@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:stevenfalco@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     I confirm that Fedora already selects OCC in its build scripts, both
>     for the official 5.1 builds, and for the 5.99 nightlies.  The
>     default can change without affecting Fedora.
>
>              Steve
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