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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

It would be desirable to get your patch compatible with SVN HEAD, and 
then we can submit your patches to the tree. I can do that for you or 
you can ask Igor for SVN write access, so long as you have an account at 
sourceforge. (Just send Igor a message on this list.)
For windows and linux, a contributor named Mylan is doing a fine job of 
taking periodic snapshots of SVN, building them, and putting those 
binaries on the sourceforge site for download by others. So the pains 
of building are removed for those not wanting to wait for a more formal 
release. Only the binaries, not the help files, and not the libraries 
are snapshotted.
It would be nice for your fellow Mac users if someone could volunteer to 
do the same for the Mac binaries (maybe, er, either of you two). 
Again, I think Igor can give you ftp write access to the sourceforge 
site, for the uploads. But then I might be assuming too much about the 
Mac platform in terms of uniformity and applicability of a common set of 
binaries. For linux I think we did static linking to get around the 
library version issues on those snapshots, and also on the formal releases.
I work only on Linux as a Kicad developer, and I am not using static 
linking. The makefile.gtk's support either type of build/link. And in 
makefile.gtk we have support for DEBUG=1 on the command line which 
dynamically links to debug forms of the wxWidgets libraries.

Dick