I have not yet been able to get 10.11 to build with ngspice 30. I will only look for a little bit. Our policy would have us upgrade to 10.12 as a minimum requirement anyway, since 10.11 no longer gets security updates.
Adam On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 10:03 PM Adam Wolf <adamw...@feelslikeburning.com> wrote: > > I do not personally use ngspice. I have filed an issue if someone has a > quick one to add. > > https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-mac-builder/issues/90 > > Adam > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2019, 9:43 PM Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Good news, it seems like we managed to make the kicad-mac-packaging >> scripts happy. >> >> After upgrading to ngspice 30 we had to update the include path for >> some unknown reason. But it seems like it should work now. The first >> build has been pushed to the nightly download location. It is not been >> repackaged for stable. I guess Adam will handle that if we don't >> release a 5.1.3 before. >> >> But I don't think it is ready for primetime yet, first user of the build >> says: >> >> <{HD}> haha so hitting the play button crashed all of kicad >> <{HD}> yep, just tried again. The whole thing crashes. >> <{HD}> This is fun and all but I am going out for dinner. I will be >> back in a few hours. >> >> So if anyone else on mac could try it out? Maybe you Jeff can try it out? >> I think he tested the unified version: >> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/osx/nightly/kicad-unified-20190701-113048-53e18489e-10_14.dmg >> >> Cheers. >> >> On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 11:16, Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > I see no reason to make ngspice 30 a strict minimum requirement. >> > >> > Lets just help packagers update to the latest ngspice and we are good. >> > >> > tor. 13. jun. 2019 18.33 skrev Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com>: >> >> >> >> On 6/10/19 4:01 PM, Carsten Schoenert wrote: >> >> > Hello Wayne, >> >> > >> >> > Am 10.06.19 um 20:15 schrieb Wayne Stambaugh: >> >> >> We cannot make ngspice 30 the minimum version. There are far too many >> >> >> linux distros where 30 is not available yet. Please keep in mind, >> >> >> Debian stable and the latest Ubuntu LTS version are the benchmarks for >> >> >> dependency package versions. I'm fine with packaging macos and windows >> >> >> with 30. >> >> > >> >> > current Debian stable (Stretch) has KiCad version 4.0.5+dfsg1-4 in the >> >> > archive and no package libngspice0 at all (not even in non-free) so >> >> > there is nothing to take care on here. >> >> > >> >> > The current Ubuntu LTS release 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) has KiCad version >> >> > 4.0.7+dfsg1-1ubuntu2 and libngspice0 version 27-1. >> >> > At least the KiCad version is long long outdated. So also not really >> >> > relevant too. >> >> > >> >> > But all relevant current Debian releases are providing a recent KiCad >> >> > version and also libngspice0 in version 30.2-1 (from unstable to >> >> > stretch-backports). This is also available in all Downstream of Debian >> >> > means also in Ubuntu >= 'Cosmic Cuttlefish' are providing KiCad >> >> > 5.0.0+dfsg1-2, but also libngspice0 in version 27. Updates wont happen. >> >> > >> >> > But Jean-Samuel Reynaud is providing actual versions of KiCad and also >> >> > the depending libngspice0 package and they even work in the always >> >> > outdated Linux Mint distro. So for me your requirements you like to set >> >> > are fulfilled. >> >> > >> >> > And normally the application is defining the requirements. Simulations >> >> > seems to be for some users an critical option. So if the maintainers of >> >> > ngspice hardly suggesting to use the most recent version of ngspice in >> >> > recent KiCad version I would strongly consider to increase this build >> >> > dependency. >> >> > >> >> > In the end it's up to the KiCad maintainers to define the requirements >> >> > for KiCad. It was a long road to get ngspice into Debian main but in the >> >> > end it happened, big thanks to Holger again btw! So Debian has no >> >> > problem to provide KiCad with a depending libngspice0 library >= 30.2. >> >> > >> >> >> >> Is this a problem for any of the other package devs? If not, I have no >> >> issue with bumping the minimum version to 30. If this prevents any >> >> other platforms from being built, then it will have to wait. >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> >> Wayne >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
