Post-V2.5.0 New Features and Development News

[huskier]

Let's take inspiration from the KiCad project and initiate a discussion on the new features and development news following the release of V2.5.0.

[jmwright]

The new Free Function API seems to be landing well with people.

[huskier]

I think we should update the Zenodo DOI citation in the README.md.

The old one looks like the following.
https://zenodo.org/records/10513848

[jmwright]

There is a separate citing doc that was just added as well.

https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1736/files#diff-679ee5db059a11726fe687e36bb0fdb136aaf83f7512a2c83258fd6f99d8060fR4

[huskier]

But the reference is still redirected to the V2.4.0 website, not the latest V2.5.0.

[adam-urbanczyk]

the ref points to the "latest" version 10.5281/zenodo.3955118. Zenodo will update eventually.

[mojca]

When approximately could we expect a new release compatible with with Python 3.13 (it looks like master switched to new OCP about a month ago in #1589)?

(Also, installing anything older than 2.5.2 seems to be currently broken as it picks up ocp 7.7.2b2 and then results in ImportError: libXrender.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.)

[adam-urbanczyk]

It does work now: check the recent azure ci run #1769

[adam-urbanczyk]

So long story short, there is no action for CQ. IDK what is the issue with cadquery-ocp but ocp as such works with 3.13.

[jmwright]

I tried to install CQ 2.5.2 in a Python 3.13 environment with both conda a pip, but there are issues with both. An install of master with either pip+git or conda seems to work though. So we can start the conversation about doing another release. We had been doing January-June, but the last release was late so our schedule is off anyway.

conda:

$ mamba install -c conda-forge cadquery=2.5.2

Looking for: ['cadquery=2.5.2']

conda-forge/linux-64                                        Using cache
conda-forge/noarch                                          Using cache

Pinned packages:
  - python 3.13.*


warning  libmamba Added empty dependency for problem type SOLVER_RULE_UPDATE
Could not solve for environment specs
The following package could not be installed
└─ cadquery 2.5.2**  is installable and it requires
   └─ ocp 7.7.2.*  with the potential options
      ├─ ocp [7.7.2.0|7.7.2.1] would require
      │  └─ python >=3.10,<3.11.0a0 , which can be installed;
      ├─ ocp [7.7.2.0|7.7.2.1] would require
      │  └─ python >=3.11,<3.12.0a0 , which can be installed;
      ├─ ocp [7.7.2.0|7.7.2.1] would require
      │  └─ python >=3.12,<3.13.0a0 , which can be installed;
      ├─ ocp [7.7.2.0|7.7.2.1] would require
      │  └─ python >=3.8,<3.9.0a0 , which can be installed;
      └─ ocp [7.7.2.0|7.7.2.1] would require
         └─ python >=3.9,<3.10.0a0 , which can be installed.

[adam-urbanczyk]

You are right, though this does not require a release, but providing ocp7.7.2 compatible with py3.13

[adam-urbanczyk]

Sadly that would require rebuilding occt for newer vtk, which I will not attempt (see conda-forge/ocp-feedstock#61).