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Re: Feature freeze.

 

2015-03-29 23:44 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 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.

No, this is against 3.0.1 according to wx-config --version.

>> 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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