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FreeCAD was last-rited more than half a year ago, but actual removal was put |
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on hold because it still got several users, judging by bug participation, and |
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at one time we even got the dreaded qtwebkit:4 dependency patched out. At that |
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point however we had already moved on to working on Qt4 removal - masking of |
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which is now only days away. |
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# Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o> (16 Nov 2017) |
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# Depends on dead Qt4. Last-rites on hold for chance of Qt5-port. Bug #620702 |
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<media-gfx/freecad-0.17 |
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However, neither the original maintainer nor solid work on the necessary |
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dependencies have so far materialised in the bugs or the Gentoo ebuild |
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repository. The following bugs need to be solved -at least- to keep FreeCAD |
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available: |
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1) New package: sci-libs/libmed (look at science or fordfrog's overlay): |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/597768 |
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2) sci-libs/opencascade-7.2.0 version bump: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/610362 |
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3) dev-python/pyside:2, dev-python/pyside-tools:2, dev-python/shiboken:2 (live |
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versions available in qt overlay) need to be worked on to getting into tree: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/624682 |
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4) media-gfx/freecad-0.17 version bump (switch to qt5): The most promising |
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version of a 9999 ebuild may be found in fordfrog overlay: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/622726 |
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Note that FreeCAD seems to have always been notoriously hard to package, so it |
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needs someone with dedication to work on it. If not, it will be gone together |
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with Qt4 rather soon, though I am sure it can have a second life on someone's |
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overlay even then. |
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Regards, |
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Andreas |
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