*ping* Sep 17, 2023 22:08:53 Johannes Thyssen Tishman <li...@thyssentishman.com>:
> Apologies for the poor formatting. I had 'textwidth' set to 80 > characters. Fixed below. > > Johannes Thyssen Tishman <li...@thyssentishman.com> wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> attached is both an update for CGAL from version 4.14.2 to the latest >> 5.6 and a revision to OpenSCAD to work with the CGAL update. Note that >> these are to be imported together to keep OpenSCAD from breaking. >> >> Despite being actively developed, OpenSCAD hasn't seen a release since >> 2021. Until now, OpenSCAD is CGAL's only consumer, which has allowed >> CGAL to become outdated without causing any issues. However the latest >> version of the recently imported PrusaSlicer also requires CGAL, but >> will not work with the old version we have in ports. >> >> Regarding the OpenSCAD revision, the master branch already depends on >> newer versions of CGAL which means that we can simply backport some >> commits to update CGAL. That is basically all what the attached diff >> does. Most if not all new patches should be fine to drop once OpenSCAD >> makes a release. >> >> Now for the CGAL update, since version 5.0 CGAL is a header-only >> library which can be installed without compiling. I've included only >> the essential dependencies[1] and left all other optional dependencies >> up to the software using CGAL that depends on them. Besides building a >> couple of the examples provided in CGAL's source, I'm not sure how to >> judge the quality of the port. I also blindly assumed that the >> 'BROKEN-mips64' line could be removed as there is no compilation >> needed anymore. I'd be interested to know if this update unbreaks >> OpenSCAD in sparc64. >> >> Any feedback or OK's would be very appreciated. Both 'portcheck' and >> 'make port-lib-depends-check' are happy with the new changes in both >> ports (the latter has some complains about OpenSCAD's port, but I >> assumed it could be ignored since it's from a previous update). I >> tested some examples from OpenSCAD and they seem to work just fine, >> but I'd appreciate some testing from someone who actually uses it. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Kind regards, >> Johannes >> >> [1] https://doc.cgal.org/latest/Manual/thirdparty.html
