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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

At a minimum I would leave the config file entry and the code to access
the config entries in place so you could manually modify the config file
for debugging purposes.  @JP, would that be acceptable to you?  I agree
that we should not expose debugging settings in the UI but I also
understand the need for development settings without having to create a
special build just to debug a specific section of code.

On 5/10/2016 3:31 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Actually, you might be onto something. Of course you can FRO with the
> environment vars ;D but perhaps we could leave it an option to be set in the
> configuration manually for the one time in 2018 JP wants to restrict this for
> debugging...
> 
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 06:58:58AM +1200, Simon Wells wrote:
>> or just make it so it always works but is either a command line
>> option/env variable or manually editing the configuration file
>>
>> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 6:56 AM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Urgh, do we really need to keep features that a developer may need at some
>>> point in the future in the UI? This is something that one person may need once
>>> sometime next year. Can't we make this a #define or something instead?
>>>
>>> We really shouldn't be cluttering everyone's UI with developer-only options.
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 08:54:05PM +0200, jp charras wrote:
>>>> Le 10/05/2016 à 20:41, Chris Pavlina a écrit :
>>>>> Back in August (git:aaadb40), I made the undo history infinite in pcbnew,
>>>>> eeschema, modedit, and libedit. Wayne wanted this to remain an option, in case
>>>>> of issues with the memory consumption of the undo stack. Currently, if you set
>>>>> "Maximum undo items" to zero, you get infinite history. I also made it default
>>>>> to unlimited.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the seven months since I did that, has anybody ever needed to limit that?
>>>>> I've found the memory consumption caused by it to be quite minimal even on very
>>>>> long layout sessions (I do not often shut my computer down other than to
>>>>> install kernel updates and do not generally close things I'm working on, so
>>>>> pcbnew can remain open for weeks at a time...).
>>>>>
>>>>> And if nobody has needed to change the limit, can I remove it to reduce options
>>>>> clutter?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please, do not remove it.
>>>> For most of users, this option is not useful.
>>>>
>>>> However, developers need to be able to set the value (usually at a low value like 2 or 3) when the
>>>> undo/redo has an issue (usually related to object deletion), even in release mode.
>>>> Sometimes a crash can happen when objects in undo/redo list are deleted, if there is a bug in these
>>>> functions.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>>>>
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