Changes at TravisCI- affecting open source

[DrInfiniteExplorer]

So what is the plan

Indeed. What's your take on using docker images for building?

[user1234]

Why Docker? Is an AppImage not enough?

[DrInfiniteExplorer]

Why Docker? Is an AppImage not enough?

Maybe I've misunderstood, my understanding is the AppImage are for distributing prebuilt binaries.
The docker image is to document/distribute the development environment itself, so the setup to be able to build FreeCAD would (in essence) be
1. Clone repo
2. docker run
3. make

And this regardless of what other or conflicting libraries and compilers and settings you have on your development machine.
As a boon many CI systems have build in support for running inside docker containers, which makes it a breeze to switch between hosting solutions, and if you want to verify some behaviour then you are one docker start away from executing in that exact environment.
Not to mention that a lot of IDEs come with support for building inside docker containers.

[voskos]

Note: The Netgen mesher was disabled in March 2017, when FreeCAD transitioned to using OCCT 7.1. Please edit this information if Netgen is usable again with the stable release of FreeCAD.

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/FEM_Install

This does not hold anymore, right?

[voskos]

A compatibility matrix for developers would be a brilliant idea

[user1234]

Maybe I've misunderstood, my understanding is the AppImage are for distributing prebuilt binaries.

Yes i have. This makes sense.

Greetings
user1234

[voskos]

Tiny update,
I finally have ubuntu+windows+macos building and running the command line tests successfully,
Now comes the question, do we need binary installers, or do we prefer zip bundles for quick and dirty download-and-runs?

[Kunda1]

Tiny update,
I finally have ubuntu+windows+macos building and running the command line tests successfully,
Now comes the question, do we need binary installers, or do we prefer zip bundles for quick and dirty download-and-runs?

Fantastic! ATM, zip bundles. Later we can discuss binary installers.

[voskos]

https://github.com/vosk/FreeCAD/actions/runs/483898470
Kinda sorta done. Feel free to comment and test, I have yet to download a single .zip. Github limits I guess
EDIT:
Quite a few things to iron out, linux users must set LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Kunda1]

Kinda sorta done. Feel free to comment and test, I have yet to download a single .zip. Github limits I guess

Can you explain how to test this ?