Bug#906105: RFS: freecad-doc -- Extensible Open Source CAx program - online documentation
Hello Debian Science,
The package described below is ready for consideration at
https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/freecad-doc.
Thank you!
On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 03:40:38 -0500 Kurt Kremitzki <kkremitzki@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Kurt Kremitzki <kurt@kwk.systems>
>
> * Package name : freecad-doc
> Version : 0.17.20180719
> Upstream Author : FreeCAD Community <info@freecadweb.org>
> * URL : https://github.com/freecad/freecad-doc
> * License : CC-BY-3.0
> Programming Lang: Python
> Description : Extensible Open Source CAx program - online documentation
>
> FreeCAD is a general purpose feature-based, parametric 3D modeler for CAD,
> MCAD, CAx, CAE and PLM, aimed directly at mechanical engineering and
product
> design but also fits a wider range of uses in engineering, such as
> architecture or other engineering specialties. It is 100% Open Source
(LGPL2+
> license) and extremely modular, allowing for very advanced extension and
> customization.
> .
> This package contains the FreeCAD documentation generated from the
project's
> online wiki. The wiki is translated into several languages and currently
> translation to French and Italian is complete enough, along with
English, to
> provide several language packages which can be switched between using the
> alternatives system.
> .
> The main documentation is provided in Qt's new help format; the new help
> format version can be viewed in conjunction with the Qt Assistant
> found in the qt4-dev-tools package or within the FreeCAD application. In
> addition, translated PDFs are supplied.
>
>
> The freecad-doc package previously existed in Debian but was removed May
> 2016 for DFSG reasons since it was built from precompiled binaries
> included in the FreeCAD source. This package uses a local updatable
> copy of the FreeCAD wiki in HTML and image form so as to distribute the
> preferred source form. An additional improvement I'm glad to announce is
> the inclusion of FreeCAD translators' work in the form of the French and
> Italian packages.
>
> I plan to maintain this within the Debian Science Team.
>
>
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