Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs
On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 19:39:52 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Monday 06 June 2016 19:16:41 David Wright wrote:
> > On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 18:56:07 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Monday 06 June 2016 18:49:50 David Wright wrote:
> > > > On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 13:12:33 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > > On Monday 06 June 2016 11:54:12 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > > > > > On Seg, 06 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > > > > So the bottom line is that wheezy doesn't have a decent CAD
> > > > > > > program, and never will.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I suppose that when it was released, little over three years ago,
> > > > > > it had a then decent CAD program.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thats not what I said or intended to say, and no it didn't have one
> > > > > then either.
> > > > >
> > > > > That qcad fork, with no docs is the best its ever offered, and its
> > > > > just qcad renamed & not even close to the last 1.0.7 release.
> > > > > Freecad has run on every install I've tried it on over the last 4 or
> > > > > 5 years, but not on debian wheezy. It too has a vertical learning
> > > > > curve, decent docs, but even though Dan Heeks is or was on the team,
> > > > > his heekscnc convertor got left behind. And none of its plethora of
> > > > > other export data formats are readily converted the RS-274-D, the
> > > > > N.I.S.T. std code format for this. Linuxcnc grew from that code
> > > > > base, but has now been extended many many times So I haven't propped
> > > > > a ladder against freecad and really really tried to learn it. But
> > > > > first I'd have to pull the sources and see if I can build it to run
> > > > > on wheezy.
> > > >
> > > > It appears to be in wheezy-backports.
> > >
> > > I can't find it there. I looked with a view to pointing Gene to it if it
> > > were there.
> >
> > Perhaps we disagree on the referent of "it"!
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 18824580 Jun 6 13:11
> > /tmp/freecad_0.14.3702+dfsg-3~bpo70+1_i386.deb
> > eb83c48f5fdd6ec7c466ac1aec516741
> > /tmp/freecad_0.14.3702+dfsg-3~bpo70+1_i386.deb (md5)
>
> Indeed! Quotation from the subject line: Re: ****libreCAD****, can't find
> help docs (my stars).
I tried to cut the quotation fairly precisely to the bit I was
responding to: Debian CAD programs. I wanted to save Gene the trouble
of compiling freecad from source as he seems very fond of it.
Gene has already moved on from the Subject line. It would be pointless
for me to change it now.
Cheers,
David.
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