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Any plans for an Alpine distribution?

• xemdetia 8y ago
  Out of curiosity why would they create a distribution for Alpine? At least in practical use I don't know of anyone who uses it as a desktop OS like other distributions. I don't know of any features of KiCad that make sense when you don't have a solid UI (I also imagine that most users of alpine are sufficiently advanced to just compile it themselves if the rest of the dependencies are there).
  • fao_ 8y ago
    > At least in practical use I don't know of anyone who uses it as a desktop OS like other distributions. There's a small but burgeoning number of us :)
    • xemdetia 8y ago
      It's good to know the distribution has gotten to that point, I'll have to give it a shot.
    • subway 8y ago
      It really isn't up to the KiCad folks to package it up though -- that should come from the Alpine side of the community.
• fao_ 8y ago
  The Arch Linux PKGBUILD (https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=kicad-git https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=kicad...) doesn't look too complex, you could try building from source. Neither `opencascade` or `ngspice` look like they're packaged for Alpine, so you'd have to build those from source first. I don't know how complex that would be. Off the top of my head the rest of the dependencies are already in the alpine package repos. Building from source isn't as hard as it's reputation. Most of the time it's just a `autoconf -i && ./configure && make && sudo make install` tbh. Just do a cursory read of the README, and `./configure --help` first.
• delfinom 8y ago
  Linux builds are up to distros to build and package (or do it yourself). We don't have the manpower to cover the 100+ distros under the sun due to Linux NIH syndrome. As long as alpine basically supports a full desktop environment using wxWidgets, it should build and run just fine.