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[Jonas Diemer <diemer@...>]

Hi JP,

nice to see there will be a stable release soon. How about giving it 
a "stable" release number, such as 2.0 (in addition to the date)? We had 
discussions about this 5 months ago or so...

Regards
Jonas

Am Mittwoch, 27. August 2008 14:14:43 schrieb jean-pierre charras - INPG:
> > De: "manneveru" <manveru@...>
> > Date: Mer 27 août 2008 10:41
> > À: kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > I build svn version successfully without errors, but currently there
> > is something wrong with debug version - when I want to run the binary
> > the pop-up dialogue informs me that code is build non-debug, against
> > debug wxWidgets. Strange.
> >
> > I made some interesting changes to CMake files which simplifies
> > configuration, I plan to submit a .patch when I resolve problem with
> > debug. These is an issue with windres, which works only under certain
> > circumstances (mor on this problem later).
> >
> > I am wondering whether I may release some windows installation binary
> > on sourceforge for let's say next release (when Jean Pierre decide
> > to)? These will be build under Windows.
>
> I just uploaded (few hours ago ) kicad 2008-08-25-RC1a on
> http://iut-tice.ujf-grenoble.fr/cao/
>
> This is a Release Candidate, but i think it could be a final version.
> Note this is a full install version for Windows and Linux (built under
> CentOS 4.4)
>
> If you are volunteer to upload a current version on sourceforge, thanks.
> Note i believe the final version installation file must be a full install
> (with docs and libs) stand alone file, not just binaries, because many
> guys have problem when installing 2 or 3 packages (theys do not know what
> is mandatory and what is not really usefull).
> This is true for all versions of kicad (Windows, Linux, Mac)
>
> Snapshots from snv must are binaries only, of course.
>
> For the Windows build, do not forget to add unicows.dll to kicad binaries
> and build wxMSW with unicows support (just rerun ./configure after adding
> unicows.dll to mingw libs): it is necessary to run unicode version of
> kicad under W98 (some users still have W98)
>
> Build Windows versions under Windows is good.
> I think binaries built under wine have problems and bugs (and they are not
> tested !)
>
> Jean-Pierre Charras