Re: (slicers and linux ports) was: Re: running FreeBSD on Notebook

On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 1:00 AM Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 9:59 PM Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 May 2022 13:17:41 -0600
> > Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> wrote:
> > > I started working on porting prusa-slicer; the main problem I found was
> >         There's already a port cad/PrusaSlicer, currently of 2.3.3. There
> > are 33 patches - somebody did a lot of work.
>
> Two big problems that are growing in the Open-Source world that comes
> from Linux:
>
> 1. People think that Open-Source is Linux. No. Linux is only a small
> part of Open-Source.
>
> 2. Self-incompatible, bleeding edge, enforcing changes, non-maintainable.
>
> :-(

And to be honest one problem with FreeBSD ports:

1. Quite often local port patches never reach the upstream, no one
ever hear about them, we are not part of the upstream community so no
one even knows about the problem.

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