Bug#888026: freecad: please package upcoming 0.17 for experimental

[kkremitzki at gmail.com]

On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 20:11 +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> Package: freecad
> Version: 0.16.6712+dfsg1-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Upstream plans to release 0.17 soon™, probably 2018Q1.
> 
> There are a lot of new features, mainly the Part Design and a
> new workbench "TechDraw", replacing "Drawing" in the long run.
> 
> It would be nice to have this in experimental soon, even
> before the official release.
> 
> I assume, that both #882761 (ITP: opencascade -- Open CASCADE
> Technology is a suite for 3D surface and solid modeling) and
> #877871 (RFP: pyside2 -- Python bindings for Qt5) need to be
> solved first.
> 
> Kurt, I see you busy on OpenCascade. Are you working on
> PySide 2, as well? That would be awesome!
> 

Yes, I am looking into packaging PySide 2, although the upstream is
still a little ways out from being ready for a release [1], e.g. they
haven't picked an initial version number.

I'm glad you added this as a wishlist since I didn't even consider that
we could pre-emptively make the 0.17 experimental package.  We're less
than a month (IMO) away from actual release so now would be a good time
to get this preliminary package out there.  By the way, there's a forum
thread tracking discussion on the 0.17 release that is a useful
reference [2].

Also, beyond trying to get OpenCASCADE 7.2 packaged (which I would
appreciate any additional feedback for, as it's quite large for my 2nd
Debian package!), we are also wanting to update the netgen package both
to v6.2.x from its current 4.9.13, as well as to compile it against the
new OpenCASCADE 7.2 package I'm working on. There's another discussion
thread on the FreeCAD forums tracking this, and feedback would be
greatly appreciated. 


1. https://wiki.qt.io/PySide2#Pyside_Development_Progress_Notes
2. https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=26174
3. https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=26278