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Re: Feature freeze.

 

On 3/29/2015 5:55 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 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.

According to the wx documentation, this was implemented in 2.9.2 so it
should be available in every version after that.  At least it builds on
another linux system so that is less disconcerting.

> 
>>>>> 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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