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The largest segment of the user base however is likely Windows and they are also likely unaware that parts update is broken as no error message comes up, it fails silently. This issue only (as far as I know anyway) affects Windows, Linux (and probably the Mac which is Unix as well) used tls1.2 from the start and still work fine.

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In addition as of last summer (I haven't checked lately) the open source Qt version for Win32 wouldn't install (and hadn't for several months) so creating a 32 bit version may require a cross compile environment which I at present don't know how to do (I have no previous experience with Qt). Unfortunately Qt appears to have back ported the assert to Qt5.6 (which Fritzing 0.9.3b was compiled with) so just rebuilding with the previous version and a new libgit2 also doesn't work. I am just about to file a pull request to fix the 8 parts involved (just finished testing last night). At present the latest version of Qt asserts and crashes Fritzing due to tspans in some parts in the parts repository. I am currently working on fixing that, but there is a way to go. However not so, as the development environment (which is poorly documented, which I am trying to change by documenting what I am doing to get an environment running.) As far as I can see no one else has a working development environment any more for Fritzing or this issue would have been fixed, as a simple (or as I have found, not so simple) rebuild with a later version of libgit2 will fix the problem. I have a fix: update the libgit2 lilbrary to a later version that supports tls1.2 on Windows (the version used only supports tls1.1 which github no longer supports). That is due to bit rot as was referred to in your talk. Currently (reference issue 3422 which I opened in September) Fritzing part update on Windows is broken.

I have been trying to restart development for more than a year now with little success. I agree there is little point to a fork, in my opinion a fork isn't going to help, what is needed is people willing to help and they appear to be in short supply. As you should see from issue 3418 there has been talk but essentially no action about restarting development. Update: Discussions on the topic are ongoing.First off, good to see someone else interested in keeping Fritzing alive. But it may very well be that this package has no future. I'll wait some time for comments here or on github or maybe ask myself in their issue tracker.

People who buy the software should be able to request the source code due to the GPL license. To me it looks like open source development has stopped. No signs of recent development or releases. There is only a single commit on the develop branch since March and none on master since February. On github there is no tagged release after 0.9.6. However, since the code was available on github under GPL license, it was still possible to build the software from source.

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Please consider buying the official package to fund ongoing development of Fritzing.ДЇor a while now Fritzing does not provide binary downloads for free but asks for a donation before giving you the possibility to download the software. The github repository by now has been updated and this package tries to reflect the official releases again.

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