What happened to the leading edge?

[Tom Horsley]

I thought Fedora tried to stay up to date with latest
released software?

I just tried to build FreeCAD 0.15 from git, but it
needs Coin3, and fedora only has Coin2.

Earlier I tried to run RepetierHost 1.0.6, but it
needs Mono 3.2, also missing in fedora.

What happened to that pioneering spirit? :-).

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Tom Horsley  wrote:
> I thought Fedora tried to stay up to date with latest
> released software?
>
> I just tried to build FreeCAD 0.15 from git, but it
> needs Coin3, and fedora only has Coin2.

Your timing is impecable! Coin 3 just finished the review process and
updated submitted.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665733

Thanks,
Richard

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 07:47:11 -0600
Richard Shaw wrote:
> Your timing is impecable! Coin 3 just finished the review process and
> updated submitted.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665733

And it only took 4 years :-). Looks like Mono 3 may be in
fedora 22.

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/24/2015 01:39 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I thought Fedora tried to stay up to date with latest
> released software?
>
> I just tried to build FreeCAD 0.15 from git, but it
> needs Coin3, and fedora only has Coin2.

<Coin package maintainer speaking>
Just like Richard said (after 4 years of lingering in Fedora's review 
queue), Coin3 is just about to land.
</Coin package maintainer speaking>

Out of curiosity: What does FreeCAD need Coin3 for?

Coin3 only offers very few features, Coin2 does not supply. Almost all 
cases, I've encountered packages which claim to require Coin2, actually 
did so thanks to lack of better upstream knowledge. Many of them 
actually require an SGI-Inventor API-compatible library and do not 
require Coin at all

[Coin originally is an SGI-Inventor clone, imitating the 
SGI-Inventor-2.1. API, originating from times, when SGI-Inventor was 
closed source, with a few features added.]
> What happened to that pioneering spirit? :-).

<biting sarcasm>
It has never existed?
</biting sarcasm>

Ralf

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:31:03 +0100
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Out of curiosity: What does FreeCAD need Coin3 for?

I forget the specific error, but there was a header it tries
to include in some code that doesn't exist in Coin2. It may
have had "inventor" in the filename, but I don't remember for sure.