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 <i...@woloschin.com> 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 <adamw...@feelslikeburning.com> > 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 <de...@latke.net> wrote: >> >>> >>> > On Sep 7, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier < >>> stegma...@sw-systems.de> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >
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