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
