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[Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <miguelangel@xxxxxxx>]

I agree on that, they are very useful to keep people updated on kicad over ubuntu.


Miguel Angel Ajo
http://www.nbee.es
+34911407752
skype: ajoajoajo

On 11/03/2013, at 02:44, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On Mar 10, 2013 6:50 PM, "Adam Wolf" <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Miguel,
> >
> > Wayne and Layne recently purchased a Mac Mini for Kicad builds.  We have a spare Windows license too, so I can host a Windows and Linux VM on it as well.
> >
> > I can set this up on a Jenkins instance.  I'm considering doing the same with the Linux builds.  While I like the PPA autobuilder, the build environment isn't like what the devs use, so the PPA breaks on a regular basis--and then it's hard to see why, because my box isn't emulating the PPA environment exactly.  This is currently the case with the cmake thing.
> >
> > I can even push my built packages back up to my PPA, so the transition could be seamless to end users.
> >
> > What do you guys think?
> 
> The PPA concept is a familiar and trusted one in ubuntu circles, would not want to lose that trust factor among new users of the daily testing builds.
> 
> Note I said users.  These binaries are for usage first, testing is a secondary issue, which is in proportion to numbers of users actually using it.
> 
> >
> > Adam Wolf
> > Wayne and Layne, LLC
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <miguelangel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> This tuesday I must decide if I keep renewing our *ltium license, or if we won't.
> >>
> >> I'm thinking about donating 1/2 - 2/3 of it's cost to buy one of those mac minis to 
> >> provide continuous integration/building of kicad binaries for OSX on every bzr release.
> >>
> >> It would be wonderful also if we managed to do same thing for Windows users, I can
> >> provide a windows VM for that somewhere, or try to setup a cross compiling from linux
> >> once all the python+mingw+wxython mess gets working (and Dick + Brian + Wayne 
> >> are working hard on this).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Miguel Angel Ajo
> >> http://www.nbee.es
> >> +34911407752
> >> skype: ajoajoajo
> >>
> >> On 11/03/2013, at 01:35, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <miguelangel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Awesome!!, thanks for testing Martijn, :-)
> >>>
> >>>     I think I used cmake from homebrew: 
> >>>
> >>> MacBook-Air-de-Miguel:src ajo$ which cmake
> >>> /Users/ajo/.rvm/bin/cmake
> >>> MacBook-Air-de-Miguel:src ajo$ ls -la `which cmake`
> >>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 ajo  staff  47  2 mar 00:24 /Users/ajo/.rvm/bin/cmake -> ../../.homebrew/Cellar/cmake/2.8.10.2/bin/cmake
> >>>
> >>>      So we should document how to install brew, and cmake + wget + bzr + swig
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Miguel Angel Ajo
> >>> http://www.nbee.es
> >>> +34911407752
> >>> skype: ajoajoajo
> >>>
> >>> On 11/03/2013, at 01:29, Martijn Kuipers <martijn.kuipers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Congratulations Miguel!
> >>>>
> >>>> I just completed a build on a pristine Macbook Air.
> >>>>
> >>>> Some (minor) comments:
> >>>> You need "wget", "bzr" and "swig". I installed all of these with homebrew without any problems. And you need cmake (not from homebrew, but cmake has native OSX version).
> >>>>
> >>>> Other prerequisites:
> >>>> XCode and Xcode command line tools (obviously), which you can get from Apple.
> >>>>
> >>>> Then be patient and just watch the screens scroll by, but the result is really nice :-)
> >>>> The entire directory needs about 2.5GB, The zipped Kicad is almost 100 MB, which is around 350MB unpacked.
> >>>>
> >>>> Um abraço,
> >>>> Martijn
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mar 10, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <miguelangel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>>> I was always hoping to see the libraries ("DLLs") to go into /Library/Kicad, so we can keep the memory footprint down of the separate Kicad components. But it is not a trivial task, so it seems.
> >>>>>>> I am not following what you want to do. Is it like:
> >>>>>>> /Applications/kicad/kicad.app <- the app with the libs
> >>>>>>> /Applications/kicad/libraries <- footprints, components, etc.
> >>>>>>> /Applications/kicad/scripts <- python user scripts
> >>>>>>> /Applications/kicad/doc <- documentation and demos
> >>>>>>> ?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Look to the patches/loader.sh on github, at this moment, all the libraries *.dylib and files go inside kicad.app/Frameworks/ and the other apps use them from there (../../../kicad.app/Frameworks) , wx and python-site mainly. 
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Also there are the demos+modules+etc in kicad.app/Resources/ or something like that  that's what I was planning to pull out of kicad.app again and yet leave it findable for all the apps.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> https://github.com/mangelajo/KicadOSXBuilder/commit/c41f116620182d56c07aee75cd751fe1ba922f7f
> >>>>> This is the change, I also re-uploaded 
> >>>>> kicad-scripting-osx-3992.zip
> >>>>>
> >>>>> :-)
> >>>>> I think it's better like this, people can go into the data directory and change/fetch whatever they like :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Kind regards,
> >>>>>>> Martijn
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Miguel Angel Ajo
> >>>>>>>> http://www.nbee.es
> >>>>>>>> +34911407752
> >>>>>>>> skype: ajoajoajo
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On 10/03/2013, at 11:18, Martijn Kuipers <martijn.kuipers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Hi Miguel,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Downloading as we speak. On the github page you call it a universal OSX binary, but that would mean it supports both PowerPC and Intel based MACS, whereas is this email announcement you call it i386 +x64 build.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I'm looking forward in compiling it myself, just to see if your solution is "portable". 
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Thanks also to your wife ;-)
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> /Martijn
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On Mar 10, 2013, at 2:19 AM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <miguelangel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Hi, 
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> I've been working on the release of Kicad with scripting for MacOSX, also tried to package it all together with 
> >>>>>>>>>> all kicad libs, and the templates.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> It's supposed to be a i386 + x64 binary build, with scripting support.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> kicad-scripting-osx-latest.zip
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> It has all the new kicad templates system and libraries inside kicad.app, and it's supposed to be accessible from all the other apps.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> I'm not sure if it will only work in 10.8, or may be 10.5-10.8, (it has a dependency to system's python2.7).
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> If there is any adventurous out there, please try, and tell me how does it work (or doesn't).
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> PS:
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>    The codename for the release is "wife", as my wife has been taking care all saturday of our little "Margarita", so she's a time donor to kicad now too ;)
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> My build & packaging script is temporarily here, for just in case anyone wants to compile himself.. 
> >>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/mangelajo/KicadOSXBuilder
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Cheers!! ;)
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Miguel Angel Ajo
> >>>>>>>>>> http://www.nbee.es
> >>>>>>>>>> +34911407752
> >>>>>>>>>> skype: ajoajoajo
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Miguel Angel Ajo
> >>>>>>>>>> http://www.nbee.es
> >>>>>>>>>> +34911407752
> >>>>>>>>>> skype: ajoajoajo
> >>>>>>>>>>
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