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Re: Feature freeze.

 


On 3/30/2015 4:01 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 
> Den 30/03/2015 01.47 skrev "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>>
>> On 3/29/2015 5:55 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>> > 2015-03-29 23:53 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>> >> On 3/29/2015 5:50 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>> >>> 2015-03-29 23:44 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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.
>>
>> I just finished building this on my Debian testing system and it build
>> fine so it appears that it may be something wrong with you wx 3.0.1 build.
> 
> What is the wx version on your debian system?

3.0.2.  I'm using the standard version in the testing branch of Debian
(Jessie).

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