Comment 5 for bug 1225612

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Patola (patola) wrote :

The most important package is without doubt Repetier Host; it is both a very competent 3D printer controller, a competent slicer frontend and a stunning 3D visualization software. However, due to some very recent perl modules requirements for its "slic3r" dependence, it might be a little awkward to make it work (lots of new perl modules would have to be packaged too).

So the second most important unpackaged software would be the Cura software package, I think. And it does not seem specially difficult to do, would take just a few modifications to the package offered by their developer.

replicatorg and repsnapper are old packages which are not very used anymore. I think they are very low priority.

It might also be wise to package pronterface. Although sort of a simple 3D printer controller, it has a competent interface for advanced 3d printing commands, and is certainly required by savvy people.

OpenSCAD version needs updating. Importing from its PPA would be great.

So, in short:
- Repetier Host, complicated to package, but important; packaging it will require packaging of slic3r too.
- Cura, easy to (re)package, second most important;
- pronterface, also important to advanced users and it's already in a PPA, very easy to import to mainstream ubuntu.
- openscad could benefit from a newer version, which is in the PPA.