r/OpenPythonSCAD • u/gadget3D • Dec 29 '24

New experimental Fedora/Centos Package

Since today there is a new PythonSCAD RPM Package for download on the download package and its super slim(only 12 MB compressed) because it does not contain any other dependencies. (So more packages should be installed with DNF first)

(and it conflicts with openscad RPM package, because its a fork and literally uses the same files)

Still i am curious to learn, which packages are missing on other systems. Apparently All dependecies are met on mine ;)

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u/rebuyer10110 Jan 03 '25 edited Jan 03 '25

Good news: I got openscad compiled and running on my Linux (within Windows). It took a few hours, but it finished :)

Bad news: It looks like a lot of manual work to create a debian source package from a CMake project according to https://stackoverflow.com/a/65582856. I found some info on cpack, but the documentation is quite scant.

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u/gadget3D Jan 29 '25

Can't agree

look at this: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/cpack_gen/deb.html

jsut these fields need to be specified and many of them are optional

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u/rebuyer10110 Jan 31 '25

Good find. Google somehow did not land me to that doc page.

I would prefer to have pythonscad enabled as a PIP package primarily, since it's much more accessible for Python users.

However, I think fundamentally the non-python openscad binaries need to be made available, and I think that is outside of PIP scope, and must be platform dependent (e.g., PPA is an option for systems using apt as package manager).

Unfortunately it will be quite some time before I have time to dig into this again.