[gta02-core] Fedora Electronic Lab support for openmoko hardware development

Wolfgang Spraul wolfgang at qi-hardware.com
Tue Oct 6 18:51:06 CEST 2009


Chitlesh,

> Originally, I was focussing on interoperability among ASIC development
> tools, which is still missing in other distributions.

Oh definitely, it's great work you are doing there! I didn't mean my
Debian comment in any bad way, more like "unfortunately this is hard
for me to try out right now since I only have Debian nearby".

> > HeeksCAD: http://code.google.com/p/heekscad
> 
> This is a bit tricky due to its dependency on opencascade. OpenCascade
> was blocked by Fedora Legal as despite the work done by Debian

Oh, interesting. I wasn't aware of that, will read up a bit...

Wolfgang

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 02:02:38PM +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Wolfgang Spraul wrote:
> > Chitlesh,
> > I first need to say that I have left the Fedora camp many years ago, now a
> > happy Debian user, but still, your work on bringing together those tools
> > is fantastic I think.
> >
> 
> Originally, I was focussing on interoperability among ASIC development
> tools, which is still missing in other distributions.
> 
> > HeeksCAD: http://code.google.com/p/heekscad
> 
> This is a bit tricky due to its dependency on opencascade. OpenCascade
> was blocked by Fedora Legal as despite the work done by Debian
> developers is still not "free" compatible as explained on
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458974
> 
> It seems this also affects Freecad.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459125
> 
> Possibly they might enter rpmfusion instead:
> http://rpmfusion.org/
> 
> Cheers,
> Chitlesh
> 
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