Bug#882761: ITP: opencascade -- Open CASCADE Technology is a suite for 3D surface and solid modeling
Hi Kurt,
many thanks for this ITP! I guess now I understand why FreeCAD is
sometime chokes on some models Debian :-/
As I use FreeCAD a lot, I also offer to lend a helping hand if desired
or if you need a sponsor for uploading when ready.
I can certanly also help on the topics brought by Anton..
Cheers,
--
tobi
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 10:10:40 +0100 Anton Gladky <gladk@debian.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> from my point of view it is OK to switch to the original opencascade
> implementation.
> But one need:
>
> - be sure that the all oce-dependent packages can be built against
opencascade
> - double check the licenses of all files.
>
> It is a good time right now to do such large package transition
because
> we have about 1 year to finish it before the Debian will be frozen
before
> the next release.
>
> There is even an old git-repo [1] which you can use for opencascade.
> Feel free to join Debian science team to get an access to it.
>
> PS Also I am looking for a freecad co-maintainer or somebody who can
> take over this and dependent package.
>
> [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/opencasca
de.git
>
> Best regards
>
> Anton
>
>
> 2017-11-30 19:57 GMT+01:00 <kkremitzki@gmail.com>:
> > Hello Anton & Debian Science Team:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2017-11-27 at 19:36 +0100, Anton Gladky wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> thanks for intending to package opencascade! I would though
recommend
> >> not
> >> to have both versions (original and the fork) in Debian at the
same
> >> time.
> >>
> >> If you have good reasons to bring back original version, please
> >> contact Debian
> >> Science Team, which is maintaining oce (and actually FreeCAD) at
the
> >> moment.
> >> We will try to find a solution for that.
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >>
> >> Anton
> >>
> >
> > There is certainly good reason to bring back OpenCASCADE
(OCCT). As I
> > mentioned, development of OCE has stalled considerably. Take a
look at
> > both the contribution graph and current release of OCE [1]. The
> > current OCE version, 0.18.2, released Aug 2017, is based upon OCCT
> > 6.9.1 which was released 2015-09-28. You can also take a look at
the
> > OCCT changelog for versions 7.0.0, 7.1.0, and 7.2.0 (which actually
is
> > released, this is not totally up-to-date) [2]. There are 196
upstream
> > tickets closed between OCE and OCCT (whether bugs fixed or features
> > added.) There are at least 15 FreeCAD bugs resolved by OCCT > 7.
> >
> > Since OpenCASCADE acts as FreeCAD's geometry/topology kernel, good
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