Hi Mojca- Our policy has been that we are willing to list ports that have active maintainers. This means that the port needs to provide the latest version of KiCad within a few weeks of it being released.
If MacPorts fits that description, then we can list it. Just open a MR with the new page at https://gitlab.com/kicad/services/kicad-website and we'll get it merged. You can copy one of the existing pages (like FreeBSD) and modify the instructions. Best, Seth On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 7:12 AM Mojca Miklavec < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I first asked on the Discord, but I have been redirected to this mailing > list. > > Would it be acceptable to list MacPorts next to other > (Linux/FreeBSD/...) distributions as an unofficial source for getting > KiCad? > > I wouldn't really mind requesting that since the official dmg is > pretty good, but that one only supports macOS 10.15 and newer (that's > what the website says; trying to install the binary on an older macOS > version complains that it wants 10.14, so maybe it conditionally works > on 10.14 as well), while the packages inside MacPorts have > successfully been built for 10.12*** and newer, and include native > support for arm64, for example. > > I would do it in a similar way as > https://www.kicad.org/download/freebsd/ that says: > > FreeBSD is not officially supported by the KiCad project. This > link is provided as a reference to FreeBSD users but the KiCad project > cannot guarantee that users will not encounter distribution-specific > issues. ... > You can install it via command line: ... > > The reason why I'm requesting this is because a user that's stuck on > an older OS due to Apple's policy of dropping support for not-so-old > hardware (which can no longer receive updates) might not be aware that > using the latest version of KiCad should still be possible. I have an > older laptop and I thought I had to switch the laptop to be able to > use a newer version (in fact I moved all my ancient kicad files to a > Windows laptop a while ago just because I thought that I could not get > the latest KiCad working on that mac at all). > > (I already wanted to make a merge request, but the font that's being > used for logotypes doesn't contain the MacPorts logo.) > > Mojca > > *** I suspect that we should be able to get it working even on macOS > 10.11 where the build breaks at nlohmann-json (while nlohmann-json > itself builds fine even on 10.5). Older than that might not be easily > doable so easily due to wxWidgets. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KiCad Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CALBOmsaqMka%2B1kT9H2K4AHygxj-xM6QugaZ31d7c%2Bh9jCV6o7w%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- [image: KiCad Services Corporation Logo] Seth Hillbrand *Lead Developer* +1-530-302-5483 Long Beach, CA www.kipro-pcb.com [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CAFdeG-pez0yKLqbK9%3D17-671A-5MxG5XUzqP-5923ofuTQk5-g%40mail.gmail.com.
