Comment 36 for bug 1752150

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Paulo Alcobia (paulo-alcobia) wrote :

Thank you for the changes but...
The hard way instructions still fail because mingw-w64-x86_64-ngspice is not available. And this is not explained anywhere in the text. Also there is no reference to the broken status of the current Msys2 distribution of to a version that works. This will likely be problematic to people that like me don't know what they are doing (that is why it is called "research" and development) and need help usually by following updated instructions. It's good that the easy way was removed because it didn't work and is was just making people waste their time, but making peoples lives more complicated doesn't help the "Kicad Cause/Community" there should always be an easy way if we want people tu use what ever product we are making. I Know C++ but I don't care much about the build environment and can't afford to spend weeks trying to figure it out. Seeing those instructions created some expectations that things would be easy and I could give it a try. I don't think its just me, but it could be my QA background.

Thank you for the work done so far, I appreciate it and I'm also just trying to help,
Paulo