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Re: Feature freeze.

 

2015-03-29 23:53 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 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.

It builds fine on the fedora20 machine, with wx 3.0.2. This is using
Ajo's wx stuff IIRC.

>>>> 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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