From: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: Christophe Pisteur <christophe.pisteur@fsfe.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Appimage: cannot run binary file
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 06:12:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210212061252.4cc1912f@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6a809d5f82c128ec7af907c077696191a11c112.camel@fsfe.org>
On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:43:24 +0100
Christophe Pisteur <christophe.pisteur@fsfe.org> wrote:
> Le jeudi 11 février 2021 à 15:12 +0100, Sergiu Ivanov a écrit :
> > Hi Christophe,
> > > I don't understand all the nuances of this discussion (I'm sorry),
> > > butit seems to me that the problem is, in the case of the
> > > developmentversion of freecad, that the sources are not published
> > > regularly. Thesources were last published in 2019 (1), while
> > > freecad offers anAppimage almost every week. So building something
> > > from the sources ofthe development code doesn't add much value to
> > > the stable version. Imust certainly be missing something, so once
> > > again sorry.Christophe(1)
> > > https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/tag/0.19_pre: "
> > > Note:The development binaries are built regularly (You may need to
> > > expandthe assets tab) . The release date indicates the beginning
> > > of the devcycle. The commits indicates how many commits in the dev
> > > cycle. Thesource archives (tar.gz and .zip) do not get updated, so
> > > they match thecommit of the tag (34a083b) and are therefore
> > > obsolete. You can get thelatest source here:
> > > https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/archive/master.zip"
> >
> > I don't know or use FreeCAD, but it looks like the source code
> > isupdated quite regularly on their GitHub repository:
> > https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/
> >
> > The latest changes seem to date back to several hours.
> > I'd say these are the sources from which the development binaries
> > arebuilt (at least this is what is usually done).
> > My understanding of the sentence
> > > The source archives (tar.gz and .zip) do not get updated, so
> > > theymatch the commit of the tag (34a083b) and are therefore
> > > obsolete.
> >
> > is that the FreeCAD team don't bother archiving the sources
> > bythemselves, given that one can always access the latest versionon
> > GitHub.
> > -Sergiu
>
> Sorry for the confusion and thank you for the explanation.
> Christophe
My bad, I didn't consider that not everyone knows Git.
This is probably the example you need:
guix build freecad --with-git-url=freecad=https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/
No need to download any tarballs this way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-12 5:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-10 18:08 Appimage: cannot run binary file Christophe Pisteur
2021-02-10 18:59 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-02-11 4:25 ` raingloom
2021-02-11 12:53 ` Christophe Pisteur
2021-02-11 14:12 ` Sergiu Ivanov
2021-02-11 14:43 ` Christophe Pisteur
2021-02-12 5:12 ` raingloom [this message]
2021-02-15 9:56 ` Efraim Flashner
2021-02-11 6:11 ` Christophe Pisteur
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