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Re: OCE plugin for 3D viewer

 

Is there ever a reason to build OSX with USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF or any other
platform with USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON?  If not, maybe we should replace #if
USE_WX_OVERLAY with #if OSX (or whatever it should be).

On 9/4/2016 3:18 PM, Simon Wells wrote:
> i am pretty sure one of them at least is used on osx as its the
> default set in cmake on osx
> 
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 9/3/2016 6:49 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>>> 2016-09-01 19:02 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> Sorry it took so long.  I took a look at Cirilo's changes an it looks
>>>> good.  We still need a PKGBUILD file for msys2 with JPs patch so we
>>>> don't have to build oce from source.
>>>>
>>>> When I merge Cirilo's 3d-plugin branch and I had to create a commit
>>>> message which made me the commit author.  This seems brain dead to me.
>>>> Here is the new commit log entry:
>>>>
>>>> commit 12c26047bffd54ccbb88348acfe7f653556450da
>>>> Merge: fcedef8 b656a81
>>>> Author: Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Date:   Thu Sep 1 11:59:44 2016 -0400
>>>>
>>>>     Merge remote-tracking branch 'cirilo/3d-plugin'
>>>>
>>>> I really only want to show Cirilo's commit log entries as a new commit.
>>>> WTF! I'm liking git less every time I use it.  What do I need to do to
>>>> get the correct commit history from Cirlo's 3d-plugin branch?
>>>>
>>>> On 9/1/2016 7:35 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>>>>> I would also like to see this merged (I have only tested the out of
>>>>> tree plugin), but I suggest that the build switch is named something
>>>>> prefixed with "KICAD_" like most other kicad specific build switches
>>>>> are, except for the github plugin.  Maybe KICAD_USE_OCE.
>>>>
>>>> For the sake of consistency, we probably should prefix everything with
>>>> KICAD_.  I always liked the autotools --with- and --enable- prefixes for
>>>> config options.  There is no consistency as far as cmake goes.  CMake
>>>> should have adopted a standard prefix naming convention for options.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> And to that I will add that Documentation/development/compiling.md
>>>>> should be updated too to reflect the usage for that compile switch, :)
>>>>
>>>> Yes, we need to be keeping these up to date.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So would a patch to change USE_OCE to KICAD_USE_OCE with description
>>> be accepted?
>>>
>>> Aslo, I note that the recently introduced option USE_SCH_IO_MANAGER is
>>> also missing a prefix and it not decribed in compiling.md either.
>>> Should that be changed too?
>>
>> I may change it since I'm guessing none of the packages are be built
>> with it enabled and that only myself and a few brave testers are
>> probably the only ones using it.  Please keep in mind, this will be
>> removed once the schematic I/O plugin manager is the default.
>>
>>>
>>> There are also USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT and USE_WX_OVERLAY, but I think
>>> I will ignore those two.
>>
>> These have been around for a long time.  I doubt USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT
>> even builds anymore.  Is USE_WX_OVERLAY still used by the OSX folks?
>> Maybe we can just get rid of them.
>>
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Nick
>>>>>
>>>>> 2016-09-01 11:39 GMT+02:00 Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>:
>>>>>> On 01.09.2016 10:30, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
>>>>>>> Just a ping to remind devs of a branch introducing the OCE plugin:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://code.launchpad.net/~cirilo-bernardo/kicad/+git/kicad-oce/+merge/303513
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Since the OCE plugin code must be activated with -DUSE_OCE=ON
>>>>>>> when configuring with CMake, I think it's safe to include this code. Having
>>>>>>> the code in the main base will make it easier for other volunteers to help
>>>>>>> sort out build and deployment issues of the OCE plugin on Windows and
>>>>>>> OSX.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Cirilo,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I fully agree to merge the OCE plug-in code. Users have been desperately
>>>>>> asking for ages for STEP & IGES support in the 3d-viewer ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> @Wayne/@Orson: since this is optional, are there any obstacles for the
>>>>>> merge?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Tom
>>>>>>
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