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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

For the forseeable future because bzr has literally made me rage
beyond belief, the gerbview branch is now on github.

https://github.com/marekr/kicad-devel/tree/gerbview

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Adam Wolf
<adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (When Clion was announced, I filed bugs on every blocker that stopped me
> from using it for KiCad.  I revisited it periodically, but it looks like
> most of them have been fixed.  Good to hear.)
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Not  pushing this for stable, for the future. Just my work in progress.
>>
>> https://code.launchpad.net/~mark-roszko/kicad/gerbview
>>
>> This is mainly a UX improvement of gerbview rather than introducing
>> features right now.
>>
>> 1. Cleaning, removed dead code, removed unused includes, removed some
>> stupid.
>> 2. Layers are now dynamically allocated to the list. No more fixed 32
>> layers.
>> 3. Layers can be rearranged up/down in the widget through right click
>> option. Also the layer at the top doesn't get a "move up" option, etc.
>> 4. Layers can be deleted individually.
>> 6. Trashed block move because it totally made sense for a gerber
>> **viewer**.
>> 7. Unless gerber X2 attributes are specified, layer names in the
>> widget are now the filenames
>> 8. Move gerber drawing items under gerber layers rather than globally
>> to simplify visibility and drawing checking
>> 9. Eliminated use of DHEAD/DLIST in favor of std::list for drawing items.
>> 10. Layer visibility is now saved in the layer instance rather than
>> some funny bitmask which would limit you to 32 or 64 layers.
>> Visibility now persists while loading more layers which it previously
>> didn't.
>> 11. Added show/hide others context menu items for layers
>> 12. Deglobified g_GerberList, moved into gerbFrame.
>>
>>
>>
>> TODO:
>>
>> 11. Fix the fact a class with no inheritance from EDA_ITEM is being
>> used as the parent class for EDA_ITEMs.......yea.....
>> 13. Fix Print and Export to PCBNew option
>> 14. Cleanup changes and restructure things a little now that I have a
>> feel for it
>> 13. Fix Excellon parsing to stop assuming a "header" will exist
>> because its 100% optional. This will be done as a new parser which
>> will have a separation from "data" from "drawing" logic.
>> 14. Fix gerber parsing that seems to generate artifacts on my super
>> complex gerbers :D No plan to rewrite into "data' and "drawing"
>> classes for now.
>>
>>
>> Main goal is to make gerbview more usable for general usage and for my
>> own needs where I find other free tools also fuck up at reading
>> gerbers or drills. In this case I can actually fix it ;)
>>
>>
>> P.S. OMG CLION IS AMAZING I AM SO PRODUCTIVE NOW A++++ MUCH CMAKE
>> --
>> Mark
>>
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Mark