https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2223
John Morris <j...@zultron.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |j...@zultron.com --- Comment #4 from John Morris <j...@zultron.com> 2013-04-01 07:40:28 CEST --- Looking at this ticket a year later, Miloš said right, HeeksCAD is defunct for certain. (In fact, another probable reason for its demise was the OpenCASCADE license keeping packages out of distributions, and because it was difficult to compile from source. This put runnable binaries out of the hands of most ordinary users.) HeeksCAD has not been defunct long enough that these packages can't still be built for all current non-EOL Fedora distros. HeeksCAD is important and useful for a number of reasons. In open-source engineering software circles, HeeksCAD is regularly pointed to as a good example of a CAM application that could compete against industry incumbents. AFAIK, PyCAM is the only other serious FOSS 3D CAM contender, and its development pace is fairly slow. HeeksCAD is today still part of a certain circle of users' CAD/CAM/CNC tool chain (though mostly Debian-like distro users), of which one common combination is FreeCAD (the project Heeks said he would likely switch to when he abandoned HeeksCAD), HeeksCAD (for CAM functions), LinuxCNC. The future FreeCAD CAM module is still in developmental infancy, but the project designers plan to transplant the HeeksCAD post-processor straight into their module. These packages will be useful to users today still waiting for a viable FOSS CAM alternative, and they are also a chance to preserve easy access to HeeksCAD for posterity. Spike, if you're still interested in pushing this package through, I'll review it. Thanks for the work. John -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug.