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Re: Feature freeze.

 

On 3/29/2015 5:38 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> Thank you for the announcement. Hopefully we can then close a lot of
> bugs then, not that this is something that has not been done in the
> meantime. Thumbs up.

I'll have some more info on that over the next few days so we can start
focusing on the stable release.

> 
> But it seems like the newest commit does not build on the build
> server. Please see:
> http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/kicad-full/319/console
> 
> Do the environment require an update?

Are you building this against wx 2.8?  Your build is failing for
undefined wxRichMessageDialog which is only available since wx 2.9.5.

> 
> 
> 2015-03-29 23:23 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Attention all developers.  I have finally committed the environment
>> variable configuration dialog (although I named it the "Path
>> Configuration" because the term environment variable is apparently too
>> scary) so we are now in feature freeze.  This means if you want to add a
>> new feature or change any functional behavior you must run it by the
>> developers list first.  This includes me as well.  The only thing I'm
>> aware that's already in the pipe line at the moment is the footprint
>> wizard that Orson is working on so that can be committed without approval.
>>
>> Please test the path configuration editor to make sure it is robust for
>> the stable release.  I did not do anything too fancy in the wxGrid
>> control used in the editor so the grid editing will be very basic.
>> Also, I kept the default wxGrid tab key behavior which means you will
>> have to use Ctrl+Tab to perform the default action which is the OK
>> button.  I also created a warning dialog using wxRichMessageDialog when
>> an externally defined environment variable is modified.  I'm not really
>> thrilled with the appearance of this dialog so I will most like roll my
>> own version that will look a bit like our exit dialog but feed back
>> would be appreciated.  This also means that KiCad will no longer build
>> against wxWidgets 2.8 for anyone out there still clinging to that version.
>>
>> Now that we are in feature freeze it's time to take stock on what is
>> going on in other areas such as documentation and nightly builds so I
>> will be sending out additional topic specific messages over the next few
>> days.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
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