ok, so we can start working on this in 2020

great!, thanks for having a look at this. I have added your patch to my master and currently trying to build it with circle-ci. [1] It would be nice to create a PR on github, so the ci could check if there is no problem with older builds of pyside/pyside2. [1] https://circleci.com/gh/looooo/FreeCAD/...

it seems like using cmake for detecting coin and soqt also works on windows. But somehow there have to be specified some generators. This is now done via a environment variable "GENERATOR". https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD_Conda/blob/qt5/pivy/bld.bat#L1 Conda-packages for coin3d, soqt, p...

these are special commands tailored to the ipython console i.e. it's not valid Python and I consider them quite problematic if we wanted to implement this for the FreeCAD Python console because many people develop their macros inside the console and then copy&paste the code into a text file. Bu...

What could be the issue that the glider workbench is not showing up in the list? That you need FreeCAD version greater than 0.16. I don't know if looo means "greater or equal to" or litterally "greater". If the second then you need FreeCAD 0.17 the development version. 0.16 does...

Does this stop the installation or is it only a warning? The command should compile pivy, so you have to wait for about 5-10 minutes.

If we find a solution for some basic stuff (like topo-naming) the functionality will increase a lot. Sponsoring projects working on such fundamental stuff is in my mind the way to go. Also we need support for maintenance. Not only for FreeCAD itself, but also for the dependencies which are not very ...

I forget to mention that pivy has to be updated. But the version we use is fully compatible with the rest of FreeCAD. Again this can be done by directly installing from github.

thanks for testing. I have updated freecad_glider. pip has a --upgrade option, but this will pull all the dependencies from pip. This is not good, as it will replace system version which are shipped with the distro. Better simple uninstall and install the package: pip uninstall freecad_glider pip in...

sorry. I think there was a typo: