Hi Bjorn, Jonathon, and everyone,
FreeCAD was certainly not easy to package. I spent actually several months just working on the pyside2 dependencies and I still do not have a working build of Pivy from coin. It is only thanks to the help of the upstream maintainers that this package is even close to working. I have attached updated patches and my responses to Bjorn's notes below. Thanks for your review!
As to QTWebKit - I do not know why it is a dependency. It may not be a hard requirement. If you comment it out, I think the configure phase may succeed. I included it for completion only.
* FreeCAD Notes
** DONE Add commit message details and copyright lines
** Coin3D
*** DONE Delete blobs
*** hg-fetch deletes .hg dirs (and all submodules' .hg dirs)
** SoQT vs. Quarter
*** Not interchangeable as far as I know.
*** FreeCAD requires SoQT specifically during configure.
** Pyside2
*** Does all of pyside2 belong in qt.scm?
- there are three packages: Shiboken2, Pyside2, and Pyside2-Tools
*** QT version compatibility
**** The pyside2 project has branches for the newest version with compatibility with older QT versions (I am using the 5.11.3 compat branch)
- That is also why I am using a git commit for the Pyside2 packages
- Pyside dependencies were by far the most challenging, and I had to track some issues (of which, some are not resolved)
** libmedfile
*** Reason for old version is that what was released when I started
*** 4.0.0 requires hdf5 >= 1.10.2
**** HDF5 has some dependents:
guix refresh --list-dependent hdf5
Building the following 11 packages would ensure 23 dependent packages are rebuilt:
r-ioniser@2.8.0
r-scone@1.8.0
r-lumi@2.36.0
r-yarn@1.10.0
r-illuminahumanmethylationepicmanifest@0.3.0
r-scdd@1.8.0
pigx@0.0.3
r-pore@0.24
r-yamss@1.10.0
r-xcms@3.6.1
r-msnid@1.18.0
**** HDF5 patches need updates when HDF5 updated to 1.10.5
*** DONE Change license to gpl3+
** libarea License questions and source locations:
- Should I use some other source? The google archive is unavailable.
- I cannot find any license information in the github repository.
**** DONE Change to gpl3+
** Using releases over hg/git downloads (please advise)
1. Pyside2 packages
- Done for compatibility reasons
2. Coin3D and SoQt
- I don't think there are releases of these aside from the bitbucket repository.
3. LLVM propagated packages (llvm-toolchain and pyside-libcxx-headers)
- I am not sure these are the best way to accomplish the goal anyways.
- Not sure where to find the right sources for llvm-toolchain-6 and the pyside-libcxx-headers.
4. libarea
- Seems like libarea is actually close to not even having source available anymore, let alone a release
5. libspnav
- Confused as to the best source to use here. If there is a release or better version, I can update.
6. FreeCAD
- I can use the releases if they exist. I do not think they have source tarballs available.
- I was packaging during a lot of active development of FreeCAD
Thank you for your review and advice.
- John