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[Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adam and Bernhard,

This is indeed great news for the majority of users.
For me, I am still waiting for the “Eeschema RED SCREEN” bug to be fixed, as it is a major annoyance that is still in the main branch of KiCad. I do not know if it happen in Windows or Linux platform, but in OS X, it is umbearable when working on a complex layout. I usually do not load the schematic while working on layout, so each time I want to look at the schematic, I have to exit KiCad, and then load the schematic, and after load pcbnew.
This is really frustrating, and I hope you OS X gurus, will fix it as it was OK before.

Jean-Paul
AC9GH

 
On Oct 30, 2014, at 11:20 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Adam,
> 
> great!
> 
> I collected what paths are now used for various things around the code.
> I’ll write this down this weekend, you could then add this to the readme.
> 
> I guess this would be great help for someone setting it up the first time… it’s not that easy when you don’t know where to put what.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Bernhard
> 
> On 30.10.2014, at 15:32, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Great work OSX developers and packagers!  It looks like we are finally
>> getting close to providing regular OSX bundles.  Many thanks to all who
>> made this possible.
>> 
>> Wayne
>> 
>> On 10/30/2014 10:01 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>> 
>>> Things are progressing very well on the OS X packaging front!
>>> 
>>> Every time bzr is updated for lp:kicad, a Mac build is generated, and
>>> every night, a clean build is generated and packaged as a dmg.  Miguel
>>> is working on fixing my SSH credentials on the server, so I can push the
>>> build logs and dmgs.
>>> 
>>> I've done my best to script a dmg creator that matches what end-users
>>> expect from downloaded Mac applications.  I think it is very good at
>>> this point.
>>> 
>>> You can see an image of what it looks like inside one of these dmgs,
>>> attached to this email.
>>> 
>>> The build log is included with every package, and also will be uploaded
>>> next to every package, so that you don't have to download the entire
>>> package to see a build log.
>>> 
>>> The package is currently around 200 megs.
>>> 
>>> The README is dynamically generated at package time.  A sample one
>>> follows.  Please let me know if you have any additions or suggestions:
>>> 
>>> KiCad
>>> =====
>>> KiCad is an EDA software suite for the creation of professional schematics and printed circuit boards up to 32 copper layers. KiCad runs on Windows, Linux and OS X and is released under the open-source GNU GPL v2 free of charge.
>>> 
>>> With KiCad you can create schematic diagrams and printed circuit board up to 32 copper layers. KiCad comes with a rich set of libraries with 3D models as well.
>>> 
>>> KiCad is a mature EDA software tool under active development by a team of developers and a vibrant user group. KiCad team counts three main developers and a dozen of regular contributors.
>>> 
>>> Documentation
>>> =============
>>> Documentation is available in this disk image under docs/, and is available online at http://www.kicad-pcb.org/.
>>> 
>>> Changelog
>>> =========
>>> You can browse the changelog at https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-product-committers/kicad/product/changes.
>>> 
>>> Reporting Issues
>>> ================
>>> The KiCad developers are working hard to provide quality, binary releases to our users.  As of September 2014, the OS X package is under heavy, active development.
>>> 
>>> If you encounter issues with this software, please report a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad.
>>> 
>>> To help us, please include the details from "About This Build" in this file or the name of the download file (kicad-r*.dmg).  Please also include the output from running the following command in the Terminal:
>>> 
>>>   sw_vers
>>> 
>>> 
>>> About This Build
>>> ================
>>> KiCad revision: r5237
>>> Packaged on 20143010-034759
>>> Packaging script revision: r20
>>> Build script revision: r20
>>> CMake Settings: -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang++ -DwxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE=../wx-bin/bin/wx-config -DKICAD_SCRIPTING=OFF -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=OFF -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../bin -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
>>> 
>>> 
>>> QA/Testing:
>>> At the moment, I have set up another OS X machine running a freshly
>>> installed 10.10.  I haven't installed anything else, and I am testing
>>> the Kicad packages on there, and then once I have tested them, I am
>>> reverting the system back to the state as it was "freshly installed."
>>> This is not ideal at all, but every day these packages aren't available
>>> is another day I spend 20 minutes replying to people asking me where Mac
>>> builds are :)
>>> 
>>> What's Left:
>>> 
>>> * Automated uploads to the website.  I poked Miguel about this recently,
>>> and he says he'll try to get to it today.
>>> 
>>> * The current Mac build appears to have some dependencies beyond what we
>>> include in the bundle.  For example, on a freshly installed 10.10 system
>>> with this bundle, I cannot open pcbnew.  I verified this myself.  A
>>> tester reported to me that he was able to fix it by installing brew,
>>> libpng, libpixman, and libfontconfig.  I have not verified that fix yet.
>>> 
>>> The error is: 06:53:16: dlopen(/Volumes/Contents/PlugIns/_pcbnew.kiface,
>>> 10): image not found
>>> 06:53:16: IO_ERROR: Fatal Installation Bug
>>> missing file:
>>> '/Volumes/Contents/PlugIns/_pcbnew.kiface'
>>> 
>>> argv[0]:
>>> '/Volumes/Kicad/Kicad/pcbnew.app/Contents/MacOS/pcbnew'
>>> from
>>> /Users/jenkins/remoteroot/workspace/KiCadMacBuild/kicad/common/kiway.cpp
>>> : KiFACE() : line 219
>>> It appears that it is looking for Contents/PlugIns/_pcbnew.kiface at the
>>> wrong place, and I am not sure why installing those libraries would fix
>>> that problem.  I am going to pull this out into its own email so
>>> discussion of this doesn't get merged with other nightly build questions.
>>> 
>>> * Including libraries?  Not sure about this one.
>>> 
>>> What has been done:
>>> 
>>> * We redid our build cluster in a way that we could let in other people,
>>> and not see the rest of the Wayne and Layne internal projects.  I hope
>>> to get some more people in the packaging group, and this was a crucial
>>> first step.
>>> 
>>> * We have an OS X machine for building, and an OS X machine for testing,
>>> and can restore it to the "freshly installed" state very easily.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Adam Wolf
>>> Cofounder and Engineer
>>> 
>>> 
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