There's a status update on things that happened in the last weeks
at http://www.openscad.org/news.html#20181105
Expanding on that, https://github.com/openscad/openscad/projects/1
shows the progress but also that there's still some open things
which need to be done.
That said, all the big features are now available in the dev
snapshots. Some are still flagged as experimental so it's not yet
safe to assume those will be in the release but I do hope they
will be.
Post by kkremitzkiI'm not familiar with OpenSCAD development, but as soon as a release is
ready, I would like to help make sure it's packaged for Debian, since it's
an important and popular part of the FOSS CAD ecosystem.
That would be great. There is even some room for help earlier as
there are 3 Debian specific topics that are the basis for getting
a new release in.
- FTBFS on MIPS, probably it would be enough to get the -pipe
removed from the build process. Worst case it could be flag
as non MIPS package.
- Remove dependency to ttf-marvosym package - we use that font
in the test suite so we should be able to just use the one
we have in the test data
- Package the lib3mf library for Debian
The first 2 are marked as "unfit for release" so they are keeping
even the exiting old release version OpenSCAD out of Testing.
The lib3mf package would be very nice to have as this format
seems to get much more attention compared to AMF (and rightly
so from my perspective). It is optional, so OpenSCAD does build
without, but it will then miss the feature to import/export 3MF
files.
Post by kkremitzkiWould it be possible to talk about some of the things which are blocking a
release, or that are left to do still? That way I might have an idea of ways
I could help until a release is ready. It also might help for me to
cross-post some information about an OpenSCAD release in the FreeCAD forums
since I know there is an overlap in user base and interest (e.g. users of
the OpenSCAD workbench in FreeCAD.)
The list of open tasks is pretty much the column "TODO - Required"
of the github project. A sizable part of that is sorting out what
issues of the big features (Customizer / SVG) are showstoppers.
I do believe both are quite usable in their current state, but
feedback on them might help speeding things up.
If you'd like to talk a bit more interactively, you can find us
on IRC (freenode/#openscad). I'm personally using Debian for a
long time now and would really like to see it back in Testing
and in Debian10.
ciao,
Torsten.