I have openscad set to automatically update (and include snapshots). Which works just fine on osx. Does the auto update include updates to the MCAD library as well? Or do I need to get them from somewhere else? And if so, where would the official MCAD library be? Jerry -- Extra Ham Operator: K7AZJ Registered Linux User: 275424 Raspberry Pi and Arduino developer *The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny...".*- Isaac. Asimov *I* *f you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime. *- Anonymous *If writing good code requires very little comments, then writing really excellent code requires no comments at all!*- Ken Thompson

This isn't an official statement, but https://github.com/openscad/MCAD looks like the official version. You'll notice it was last updated 11 months ago. On Saturday, 26 December 2015, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz@gmail.com> wrote: > I have openscad set to automatically update (and include snapshots). > Which works just fine on osx. > > Does the auto update include updates to the MCAD library as well? Or do I > need to get them from somewhere else? And if so, where would the official > MCAD library be? > > Jerry > > -- > Extra Ham Operator: K7AZJ > Registered Linux User: 275424 > Raspberry Pi and Arduino developer > > > *The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new > discoveries - is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny...".*- Isaac. Asimov > > *I* > *f you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you > teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime. *- > Anonymous > > > *If writing good code requires very little comments, then writing really > excellent code requires no comments at all!*- Ken Thompson >

> On Dec 26, 2015, at 08:03 AM, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does the auto update include updates to the MCAD library as well? Yes. but MCAD isn’t very actively maintained. -Marius

i kinda figured that. I did a grep on child(), and assign(), and found a number of occurances. would it help, if I listed the files that had either of those? -- Extra Ham Operator: K7AZJ Registered Linux User: 275424 Raspberry Pi and Arduino developer *The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny...".*- Isaac. Asimov *I* *f you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime. *- Anonymous *If writing good code requires very little comments, then writing really excellent code requires no comments at all!*- Ken Thompson On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Marius Kintel <marius@kintel.net> wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2015, at 08:03 AM, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Does the auto update include updates to the MCAD library as well? > > Yes. but MCAD isn’t very actively maintained. > > -Marius > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >

> On Dec 26, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz@gmail.com> wrote: > > i kinda figured that. > I did a grep on child(), and assign(), and found a number of occurances. > > would it help, if I listed the files that had either of those? > Finding the files is a one-line. Changing it, testing it and filing a pull request is what would take time. It might help talking to hyperair (https://github.com/hyperair) as he the closest we’ve got to a maintainer for MCAD. See e.g. the dev branch: https://github.com/openscad/MCAD/tree/dev -Marius

There are already 21 pending pull requests on the master branch, mostly from 2014. Looks like the child()/assign() problems are fixed in some of those pull requests. Okay, now I'm looking at the dev branch. It was last updated 2 months ago. I see that child()->children() and assign() fixes have already been made there. On 26 December 2015 at 14:25, Marius Kintel <marius@kintel.net> wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > i kinda figured that. > > I did a grep on child(), and assign(), and found a number of occurances. > > > > would it help, if I listed the files that had either of those? > > > Finding the files is a one-line. Changing it, testing it and filing a pull > request is what would take time. > It might help talking to hyperair (https://github.com/hyperair) as he the > closest we’ve got to a maintainer for MCAD. See e.g. the dev branch: > https://github.com/openscad/MCAD/tree/dev > > -Marius > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >

so, then it will be merged into master soon? if so, I can just get the zip file, and replace it? -- Extra Ham Operator: K7AZJ Registered Linux User: 275424 Raspberry Pi and Arduino developer *The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny...".*- Isaac. Asimov *I* *f you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime. *- Anonymous *If writing good code requires very little comments, then writing really excellent code requires no comments at all!*- Ken Thompson On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 12:46 PM, doug moen <doug@moens.org> wrote: > There are already 21 pending pull requests on the master branch, mostly > from 2014. Looks like the child()/assign() problems are fixed in some of > those pull requests. > > Okay, now I'm looking at the dev branch. It was last updated 2 months ago. > I see that child()->children() and assign() fixes have already been made > there. > > On 26 December 2015 at 14:25, Marius Kintel <marius@kintel.net> wrote: > >> > On Dec 26, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > i kinda figured that. >> > I did a grep on child(), and assign(), and found a number of occurances. >> > >> > would it help, if I listed the files that had either of those? >> > >> Finding the files is a one-line. Changing it, testing it and filing a >> pull request is what would take time. >> It might help talking to hyperair (https://github.com/hyperair) as he >> the closest we’ve got to a maintainer for MCAD. See e.g. the dev branch: >> https://github.com/openscad/MCAD/tree/dev >> >> -Marius >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenSCAD mailing list >> Discuss@lists.openscad.org >> http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org > >

Or you could just get a ZIP of the dev branch. It's just a matter of selecting the correct branch in the drop down list. On 26 December 2015 at 20:01, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz@gmail.com> wrote: > so, then it will be merged into master soon? > if so, I can just get the zip file, and replace it? > > > -- > Extra Ham Operator: K7AZJ > Registered Linux User: 275424 > Raspberry Pi and Arduino developer > > > *The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new > discoveries - is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny...".*- Isaac. Asimov > > *I* > *f you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you > teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime. *- > Anonymous > > > *If writing good code requires very little comments, then writing really > excellent code requires no comments at all!*- Ken Thompson > > On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 12:46 PM, doug moen <doug@moens.org> wrote: > >> There are already 21 pending pull requests on the master branch, mostly >> from 2014. Looks like the child()/assign() problems are fixed in some of >> those pull requests. >> >> Okay, now I'm looking at the dev branch. It was last updated 2 months >> ago. I see that child()->children() and assign() fixes have already been >> made there. >> >> On 26 December 2015 at 14:25, Marius Kintel <marius@kintel.net> wrote: >> >>> > On Dec 26, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > i kinda figured that. >>> > I did a grep on child(), and assign(), and found a number of >>> occurances. >>> > >>> > would it help, if I listed the files that had either of those? >>> > >>> Finding the files is a one-line. Changing it, testing it and filing a >>> pull request is what would take time. >>> It might help talking to hyperair (https://github.com/hyperair) as he >>> the closest we’ve got to a maintainer for MCAD. See e.g. the dev branch: >>> https://github.com/openscad/MCAD/tree/dev >>> >>> -Marius >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenSCAD mailing list >>> Discuss@lists.openscad.org >>> http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenSCAD mailing list >> Discuss@lists.openscad.org >> http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org > >

got the zip file. In your opinion, would it be better to REPLACE what is in MCAD directory (library), or make a new directory like MCADdev? -- Extra Ham Operator: K7AZJ Registered Linux User: 275424 Raspberry Pi and Arduino developer *The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny...".*- Isaac. Asimov *I* *f you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime. *- Anonymous *If writing good code requires very little comments, then writing really excellent code requires no comments at all!*- Ken Thompson On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 2:10 PM, nop head <nop.head@gmail.com> wrote: > Or you could just get a ZIP of the dev branch. It's just a matter of > selecting the correct branch in the drop down list. > > On 26 December 2015 at 20:01, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz@gmail.com> wrote: > >> so, then it will be merged into master soon? >> if so, I can just get the zip file, and replace it? >> >> >> -- >> Extra Ham Operator: K7AZJ >> Registered Linux User: 275424 >> Raspberry Pi and Arduino developer >> >> >> *The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new >> discoveries - is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny...".*- Isaac. Asimov >> >> *I* >> *f you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you >> teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime. *- >> Anonymous >> >> >> *If writing good code requires very little comments, then writing really >> excellent code requires no comments at all!*- Ken Thompson >> >> On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 12:46 PM, doug moen <doug@moens.org> wrote: >> >>> There are already 21 pending pull requests on the master branch, mostly >>> from 2014. Looks like the child()/assign() problems are fixed in some of >>> those pull requests. >>> >>> Okay, now I'm looking at the dev branch. It was last updated 2 months >>> ago. I see that child()->children() and assign() fixes have already been >>> made there. >>> >>> On 26 December 2015 at 14:25, Marius Kintel <marius@kintel.net> wrote: >>> >>>> > On Dec 26, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > i kinda figured that. >>>> > I did a grep on child(), and assign(), and found a number of >>>> occurances. >>>> > >>>> > would it help, if I listed the files that had either of those? >>>> > >>>> Finding the files is a one-line. Changing it, testing it and filing a >>>> pull request is what would take time. >>>> It might help talking to hyperair (https://github.com/hyperair) as he >>>> the closest we’ve got to a maintainer for MCAD. See e.g. the dev branch: >>>> https://github.com/openscad/MCAD/tree/dev >>>> >>>> -Marius >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> OpenSCAD mailing list >>>> Discuss@lists.openscad.org >>>> http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenSCAD mailing list >>> Discuss@lists.openscad.org >>> http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenSCAD mailing list >> Discuss@lists.openscad.org >> http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org > >

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