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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Adam,

Great news for OSX user's.  Hopefully all platforms will be reasonably
close in terms of usability.  Thank you for all of your hard work.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 7/6/2015 11:23 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> We can definitely make a Mac stable autobuilder that will continue to
> build the stable branch.
> 
> I will work on it when I get in there and switch the default build to
> have Python scripting.
> 
> Adam Wolf
> 
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 3:33 AM, Miguel Angel Ajo <mangelajo@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:mangelajo@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Thanks for the update Wayne, and thanks everybody for working hard
>     into a good direction.
> 
>     I believe we can easily set in place autobuilders for the stable
>     release too, so, when new patches are sent to stable branch, we get
>     a fresh stable build.
> 
>     On the fedora side I will create kicad-stable repo on the copr
>     autobuilder for easy consumption, with a long term goal is to get it
>     into default fedora, but I guess that needs the wxwidgets + gtk2
>     build in-fedora.
> 
>     Best,
>     Miguel Ángel
> 
> 
>     Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> 
>         This week did not go as planned.  I was ready to pull the
>         trigger on the
>         stable branch yesterday when the 3D viewer crash report came in.  I
>         would like to get that addressed before I create the stable branch.
>         Once this fix is committed, I will create a stable branch
>         (4.0.0-rc1)
>         for testing.  This means no new features (except possibly Tom's
>         Eeschema
>         to Pcbnew update patch) until after the stable release.  We will
>         continue to apply bug fixes to the product branch so the
>         autobuilders
>         can be used for testing.  I will periodically merge the fixes
>         into the
>         stable release branch until it's ready for prime time.
> 
>         I just committed a change in how the build version string is
>         generated
>         which should fix the long standing issue of the bzr version not
>         getting
>         updated automatically without running `make rebuild_cache`.  I also
>         added the ability to define the version string during CMake
>         configuration which will allow packagers to define the appropriate
>         version string for stable release builds.  Configuring CMake
>         like this:
> 
>         cmake -DKICAD_BUILD_VERSION="4.0.0-rc1" -DKICAD_REPO_NAME="stable"
> 
>         will result in a build string of:
> 
>         4.0.0-rc1-stable
> 
>         I've only tested this on windows so please let me know if you
>         find any
>         issues on other platforms.  For those of you who are using the msys2
>         package builder file PKGBUILD to build kicad, please note that
>         the msys2
>         version of bzr is broken and will fail attempting to determine
>         the bzr
>         version.  Please comment out the bzr source build dependency in
>         PKGBUILD
>         and use one of the native bzr windows installers instead.  Make
>         sure to
>         add the bzr executable to your system path so CMake can find it
>         during
>         configuration.  I will remove it from the PKGBUILD file and send
>         a pull
>         request to the msys2 devs when I get a chance.
> 
>         Thanks,
> 
>         Wayne
> 
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