New short wiki pages on Debian & packaging

[kkremitzki]

https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/DebianUnstable
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/DebianDevelopment
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/GitBuildpackage

I've been wanting to get some of my Debian/packaging knowledge into the wiki for a while, these are just first drafts towards that effort. I'd like to expand on instructions for running virtual machines since it's very easy to spin up a Debian Unstable VM and help out.

[NormandC]

Thanks!!!

As I suggested in another topic, we could have a Packaging portal page that would link to pages like Debian packaging, Windows packaging and MacOS packaging. Then the pages you created could be linked from the Debian packaging page...

[Kunda1]

We can also refer to downstream package repos and see what patches they are using and if we want to integrate aspects of said patches. Here is a list:

AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/?h=freecad
Chocolatey: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolate ... ic/freecad
Clear Linux: https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/FreeCAD
Fedora Rawhide: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/freecad/tree/master
FreeBSD: https://www.freshports.org/cad/freecad
Macports: https://github.com/macports/macports-po ... ad/freecad
NixOS: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/m ... cs/freecad
OpenMandriva Cooker: https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/freecad
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show ... ry/FreeCAD
Void Linux: https://github.com/void-linux/void-pack ... gs/freecad

[vocx]

https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/DebianUnstable
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/DebianDevelopment
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/GitBuildpackage

I've been wanting to get some of my Debian/packaging knowledge into the wiki for a while, these are just first drafts towards that effort. I'd like to expand on instructions for running virtual machines since it's very easy to spin up a Debian Unstable VM and help out.

Bump.

This information should definitely be in the Developer hub.

As per this thread, Rename: Compiling pages, I prefer to leave a space between the words and only capitalize the first letter or proper names.
* Debian_Unstable
* Debian_development
* Git_buildpackage

[renatorivo]

As per this thread, Rename: Compiling pages, I prefer to leave a space between the words and only capitalize the first letter or proper names.
* Debian_Unstable
* Debian_development
* Git_buildpackage

Done.

[Kunda1]

The pages need to be categorized as well

[vocx]

The pages need to be categorized as well

In my opinion, the three top level categories should be "User documentation", "Poweruser documentation", and "Developer documentation".

All other categories should not have the word "documentation". That is, I would put the page in the "Packaging" category, which itself would be a sub-category of "Developer documentation".

[vocx]

From NormandC's comment above, I've decided to create the following pages.

Packaging
* Linux_packaging
* Windows_packaging
* MacOS_packaging

The Windows and MacOS pages are still empty. Perhaps uwestoehr, sgrogan, apeltauer can fill something on the Windows side.

[sgrogan]

The Windows and MacOS pages are still empty. Perhaps uwestoehr, sgrogan, apeltauer can fill something on the Windows side.

I just came across this now
This is indeed a good idea.

I will try to add some content to the windows page. I will for sure need help formatting it.

How do I create a sandbox for this page?

[vocx]

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How do I create a sandbox for this page?

You can just edit the page itself. It doesn't matter if it's a work in progress. Or just create a second page, Windows_packaging_sandbox; edit it as you like, and when you are finished, copy and paste all information into the real page, Windows_packaging.