Potential June Release of CadQuery 2.6

[jmwright]

I would like to do a June release of CadQuery, which will be 2.6. There are some PRs that we should probably try to merge before that release. Below is a list of the PRs that I'm aware of that are close enough to merging to make the June release window.

• STEP assembly import - I have this mostly working, I'm just checking a few issues before I take it out of draft.
• Update of copyWorkplane - Whether we want to merge this one or not, it seems reasonable to review it before the release.
• Non-blocking vis.py Support - This may need to wait for new releases of upstream packages, I'm not sure. We will try to merge this one.
• extend _findFromPoint to support Vertex

Future Release

• Material support - A larger PR, but it would be nice to include this in the next release.

Thoughts?

[jmwright]

We certainly did not hit the June cutoff, but the step assembly import PR (#1779) is close to being merged. I believe that material support (#1815) is going to be left for a future release. Do we still want to try to get #1853 done, or should that be left to the next release as well?

[adam-urbanczyk]

I think 1853 can go in. Materials will be indeed a long story.

[jmwright]

The only thing blocking #1853 is test coverage, correct?

[adam-urbanczyk]

Yes, thanks for reminding me!

[jmwright]

It looks like #1853 is ready to merge. If there are no objections, I will work on releasing CadQuery 2.6 after that is merged.

[adam-urbanczyk]

+1, we probably need to bump minimal Python version.

[jmwright]

I can do the min version bump as a separate PR since that has to be changed in a few places on both the conda and pip sides.

[jmwright]

It ended up being an October release, but CadQuery 2.6.0 is available now via pip and conda.

[mojca]

Awesome, thank you very much!