← Back to team overview

kicad-developers team mailing list archive

Re: idea for post-release file manipulations

 

Where is the bug listed in the bug tracker Jean-Paul?

2015-06-21 19:46 GMT+02:00 Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Are we going to the stable release with all the drop-down items broken on pcbnew OSX?
>
> I cannot use the mouse or the track-pad to select any of the items on the four drop-down menus for Track size, Via size, Grid size and Zoom selection.
>
> I reported this several times, but nobody seems to acknowledge it. Is it an issue with my setting? or it is a real issue?
>
> Thanks for letting me know.
>
> A very frustrated Jean-Paul
> AC9GH
>
>> On Jun 21, 2015, at 1:22 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Simon,
>>
>> A group of us have talked about making a git plugin that will be compatible w the github plugin, but will use git on the user's system and won't do network io on its own.
>>
>> We have basically always pushed it off until after the stable release, but as soon as things quiet down i think we should see who is interested and make a roadmap and get buy-in from the lead team.
>>
>> Adam Wolf
>>
>> On Jun 21, 2015 11:46 AM, "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> See include/richio.h
>>
>> Our I/O objects already support wxInputStream and wxOutputStream.
>> Although there is no reason you couldn't add objects that use
>> std::istream and std::ostream or the boost::iostreams.  I believe the
>> wxIoStreams already support support archives so all you would have to do
>> is create the stream and pass it too the proper LINE_READER or
>> OUTPUT_FORMATTER object.  You would automagically have archive stream
>> support for board file and footprint libraries.
>>
>> On 6/21/2015 8:55 AM, Simon Richter wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Am 21.06.2015 um 03:06 schrieb Cirilo Bernardo:
>> >
>> >> a. Abstracting a stream class which can magically support
>> >> file retrieval by http, local files, and perhaps github (I know
>> >> next to nothing about how github works) and local file
>> >> writing.
>> >
>> > std::istream?
>> >
>> >> b. The stream class can automatically inflate *.gz files
>> >> (basically files compressed by zlib and with .gz at the end).
>> >
>> > boost::iostreams::gzip?
>> >
>> >> Supporting *.gz can typically shrink footprint files to 30-40%
>> >> of the uncompressed size and VRML files can often
>> >> compress to <15% of the original size and large STEP
>> >> and IGES files can compress to 10% of the original.
>> >
>> > Is that actually a problem for users, though?
>> >
>> > I'd probably even want to see the opposite -- network operations removed
>> > from the rest of the program. Right now, if I have github footprints in
>> > my list, entering cvpcb or pcbnew always takes a while because the
>> > libraries are updated everytime.
>> >
>> > I'd rather have an explicit mechanism to update the libraries, giving me
>> > local files that are instantly and always available, with no new failure
>> > modes to handle for the application.
>> >
>> >    Simon
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
>> > Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
>> > More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>> >
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
>> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
>> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>> _______________________________________________
>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
>> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
>> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp


Follow ups

References