So, fpga-toolchain makes sense because it's a different (all static) solution.
In oss-cad-suite, they are partially duplicating the MINGW packages and they are partially duplicating the hdl/containers.
See YosysHQ/oss-cad-suite-build#1.
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Not even sure what those are used for currently (here)
If you extend the sidebar on the right, there is a sequence of notifications about commits, issues, etc. Not all users pay attention to it, but it's useful for maintaining organisations, since activity can go unnoticed in very busy days.
The complement to that feature is the ability to reference issues or PRs through #. I know this one is a client side thing, so it can be implemented in Element or any other client. Yet, I'd like someone to point at any example on a matrix client.
@edbordin I guess that most users nowadays are expecting to use the tools more than once. Therefore, other packaging/distribution solutions are more desirable for them. However, fpga-toolchain is very interesting for workshops where you don't know which computers will people bring, or you cannot install much software on them. In those cases, fpga-toolchain can be provided in a pendrive, along with a development board. It's also interesting because the set of tools is not the minimal but it's neither too large. Hence, it allows workshops with multiple languages and also formal verification exercises. When you deprecate it, fomu-workshop will be affected. Yet, I'm adding documentation about how to use containers. 3-4 years ago, containers were not supported on any Windows, and gitpod did not exist. They are supported now. Hence, that's something that Sean and Tim will need to evaluate.
can the hdl containers be run without root privileges?
Yes. Those are OCI containers (https://opencontainers.org/). They should work with any compatible runtime (docker, podman, nerdctl/containerd, whatever k8s uses...). I use them with docker on Windows and with podman on Fedora.
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There is 1GB of Ubuntu system libs included in the tarball, and all the executables are wrapped in bash/perl scripts for overriding the linker and library paths.
Hi, sorry for late reply, well actually there is less then 200MB of libraries and other resources taken from Ubuntu 20.04, and plain docker for it is 134MB without any needed library, so docker image would probably be larger then distribution files. Also note that python2 and python3 distributed are not from taken from ubuntu but built so we can have same version for all OS-es and also some software links to python and that must be specific version, so yes that is about 200MB of various files but size would be same in docker image