Re: Packaging FreeCAD

[John Soo]

Hello Guix,

I have some small updates and asking for help on freecad (I’m working from my channel github.com/jsoo1/guix-channel). I have been getting a little stuck building the pyside2 dependencies. It seems like freecad is moving from the pyside1 tools (Shiboken and pyside) to pyside2 for the 0.18 release (see https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_Python). These packages have a custom setup.py that I could use a hand porting to a guix package. As far as I understand, building upside would complete all the required third party packages listed on the freecad wiki: https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Third_Party_Libraries. 

- John

On Jan 14, 2019, at 4:42 AM, Paul Garlick <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi John,

I did not know Debian changed their version of opencascade

There are two versions of OpenCASCADE in Debian, named 'liboce' and
'libocct'.  'occt' is the upstream variant, 'oce' is the community
maintained variant.  Historically, Debian has switched between the two
as licence requirements dictated.  

Currently, both are packaged and FreeCAD version 0.17 depends on
liboce.  However, libocct is being more actively maintained and I
believe the intention for Debian FreeCAD version 0.18 is for the
dependency to switch to libocct.

Best regards,

Paul.