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Re: Stable version 4.0.5

 

[2] may be my fault, I will have a look shortly. Not sure who ate [3].

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 05:55:16PM +0100, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> Good news to see a new release, but I wonder about two things:
> 
> 1. Boost 1.61 compatibility and bugfix?
> 2. Release version string.
> 
> Should the release should include the boost 1.61 fix. It was discussed in:
> [Kicad-developers] About Bug 1604841: Pcbnew crash at moving via, and
> boost::context fixes to make it compatible with boost 1.61
> 
> And there is a patch in [1], although it does not explicitly state
> where it is from, but it looks similar to [2] and [3]. With out the
> patch in [1] I can not build it against boost 1.62 on archlinux.
> 
> Secondly, I would like to know how we are supposed to set the release
> infor for the version string. For the 4.0.0--4.0.4 you are supposed to
> use the following options to set the version string:
> 
> -DKICAD_REPO_NAME=stable -DKICAD_BUILD_VERSION=4.0.5
> 
> But KICAD_REPO_NAME does not seem to exist anymore... even though I
> set KICAD_BUILD_VERSION it gets overridden by the git info and the
> version string becomes:
> #define KICAD_FULL_VERSION "(2016-11-09 revision 18f77b8)-4.0"
> 
> I would have expected to get something like we are used to as,
> "4.0.5-stable" for example.
> 
> Nick
> 
> [1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/boost-1.61.patch?h=packages/kicad
> [2] https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/commit/?id=06d4894fdbeb00727cdcc667b8899ad73d8eb1c2
> [3] https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/commit/?id=78bc3c65de6c03d19be9902327d08cd4d87c229c
> [4] https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg25556.html
> 
> 2016-11-11 23:44 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > This is the last call for patches to the 4 stable branch.  If I don't
> > hear anything, I will set version string and tag 4.0.5 in the stable
> > branch on Sunday and give our library, doc, translation, and package
> > devs a couple of weeks to prepare before I make the official announcement.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Wayne
> >
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