Hi Nick,
Two reasons:
First, the package kicad-git is designed to be a fully floating "use
at your own risk" package, not something that's pinned to a specific
commit each day, making bug replication and tracking much harder. My
own kicad-nightly package is locked to a specific commit each day
which has already proven helpful in figuring out why something (the
pad editor dialog in the footprint editor) broke.
The second, is that their package is not designed to be side-by-side
installable with the main kicad package. The AUR says they're doing
the right thing for a -git package, which is very much not the
behaviour I want or need, so hence -nightly.
Additionally, a side-by-side nightly requires quite a lot of
build-time tweaks that would definitely break someone's system who has
been using the kicad-git package, so this would also be frowned on by
the AUR.
Rachel.
Quoting Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com>:
Hi Rachel
I wonder why you wouldn't just propose the changes to the maintainer of
kicad-git in AUR.
I didn't review your scripts, but that is where I woukd start.
fre. 23. okt. 2020 12.32 skrev <ki...@rachelmant.com>:
Hi folks,
I recently got fed up enough of not having a parallel installable
nightly for Arch that I could use at the same time as release KiCAD so
I could toy with new features and yet still keep my main projects in
5.x format, so I put in the effort to create a set of PKGBUILD files
for such a nightly.
The result of this are the two sets of packages on the AUR known as
kicad-nightly and kicad-library-nightly. However, updating these is
presently a touch unwieldy and I wish to put together a meta-repo with
my scripts for updating the packages.
To this end, I'm seeking a packaging repo on GitLab such as
`kicad-arch-builder`, and possibly a couple of mirroring repos for
each of the two AUR packages, if that is possible please?
Many thanks,
Rachel.
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