Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs
On Monday 06 June 2016 20:00:42 David Wright wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I am not suggesting that you should. But we did have different
referents. Gene would always rather mess around anyway. Why do it the easy
way when the difficult way will do???? ;-)
Lisi
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