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Re: Feature freeze.

 

On 3/29/2015 5:50 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 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.

I wonder if there is a custom build option when building wxWidgets under
linux to enable this.  I hope not.  Otherwise, everyone's linux builds
will be broken.  I may be implementing our own custom rich message box
sooner than I thought.  I will try to build it on linux as soon as I can
to see if I have the some problem.

> 
>>> 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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