[Request] microchip-mplabx-bin

[bibliothec]

Link to the package base(s) in the AUR

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/microchip-mplabx-bin
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/microchip-mplabxc16-bin
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/microchip-mplabxc32-bin
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/microchip-mplabxc8-bin

Utility this package has for you

IDE for Microchip PIC

Do you consider the package(s) to be useful for every Chaotic-AUR user?

YES!

Do you consider the package to be useful for feature testing/preview?

• Yes

Have you tested if the package builds in a clean chroot?

• Yes

Does the package's license allow redistributing it?

No, but the author doesn't really care anyways. It's just for bureaucracy.

Have you searched the issues to ensure this request is unique?

• YES!

Have you read the README to ensure this package is not banned?

• YES!

More information

added some links for compiler tool chain in "Link to the package base(s) in the AUR"

[Technetium1]

Recursive deps need updated before this can happen. No obvious ETA...

MarsSeed flagged tclkit out-of-date on 2022-08-01 (EDT) for the following reason:

Tcl & Tk 8.6.12 (2021-11-05)

[xiota]

$ pacman -Si microchip-mplabx-bin
...
Download Size   : 1089.13 MiB
Installed Size  : 11456.60 MiB
...

[Technetium1]

They are indeed large… It would still be good to add them for a while and see if they are used, then remove later if they are not. We can't know until they update again, but there are quite a few votes on the AUR there, and it seems quite difficult to build on a normal PC.

[xiota]

The packages are built and in the repo. I didn't add them to the package list after seeing the size. Also need to look at the license.txt.

This is another case where a downloader package that doesn't contain the actual software could be useful. Saves server resources and avoids license complications by connecting the developer directly with the end user.

Fun fact:

$ namcap /var/cache/pacman/pkg/microchip-mplabxc8-bin-2.45-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst | grep python2
microchip-mplabxc8-bin W: Referenced library 'libpython2.7.so.1.0' is an uninstalled dependency (needed in files ['opt/microchip/xc8/v2.45/avr/bin/avr-gdb-py'])

[Technetium1]

This depends on java8-openjfx, which depends on both Python2.7 and Qt5. This won't be added per #1958 and #3157.