Hi Mojca- Our policy has been that we are willing to list ports that have active maintainers. This means that the port needs to provide the latest version of KiCad within a few weeks of it being released.
If MacPorts fits that description, then we can list it. Just open a MR with the new page at https://gitlab.com/kicad/services/kicad-website and we'll get it merged. You can copy one of the existing pages (like FreeBSD) and modify the instructions. Best, Seth On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 7:12 AM Mojca Miklavec < mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I first asked on the Discord, but I have been redirected to this mailing > list. > > Would it be acceptable to list MacPorts next to other > (Linux/FreeBSD/...) distributions as an unofficial source for getting > KiCad? > > I wouldn't really mind requesting that since the official dmg is > pretty good, but that one only supports macOS 10.15 and newer (that's > what the website says; trying to install the binary on an older macOS > version complains that it wants 10.14, so maybe it conditionally works > on 10.14 as well), while the packages inside MacPorts have > successfully been built for 10.12*** and newer, and include native > support for arm64, for example. > > I would do it in a similar way as > https://www.kicad.org/download/freebsd/ that says: > > FreeBSD is not officially supported by the KiCad project. This > link is provided as a reference to FreeBSD users but the KiCad project > cannot guarantee that users will not encounter distribution-specific > issues. ... > You can install it via command line: ... > > The reason why I'm requesting this is because a user that's stuck on > an older OS due to Apple's policy of dropping support for not-so-old > hardware (which can no longer receive updates) might not be aware that > using the latest version of KiCad should still be possible. I have an > older laptop and I thought I had to switch the laptop to be able to > use a newer version (in fact I moved all my ancient kicad files to a > Windows laptop a while ago just because I thought that I could not get > the latest KiCad working on that mac at all). > > (I already wanted to make a merge request, but the font that's being > used for logotypes doesn't contain the MacPorts logo.) > > Mojca > > *** I suspect that we should be able to get it working even on macOS > 10.11 where the build breaks at nlohmann-json (while nlohmann-json > itself builds fine even on 10.5). Older than that might not be easily > doable so easily due to wxWidgets. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KiCad Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CALBOmsaqMka%2B1kT9H2K4AHygxj-xM6QugaZ31d7c%2Bh9jCV6o7w%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- [image: KiCad Services Corporation Logo] Seth Hillbrand *Lead Developer* +1-530-302-5483 Long Beach, CA www.kipro-pcb.com i...@kipro-pcb.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CAFdeG-pez0yKLqbK9%3D17-671A-5MxG5XUzqP-5923ofuTQk5-g%40mail.gmail.com.
