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Re: latest news on v5?

 

Thank you for the offer but this one is pretty much on me since I had a
hand in the footprint library table design.  There are some very
specific things I have in mind which would take more time to convey to
another developer than it would for me to do myself.

Wayne.

On 6/5/2017 7:28 AM, Kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
> Is there anything that some can help you with here, and in that case,
> what would that be?
> 
> - Kristoffer
> 
> On 2017-06-01 02:38, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> I apologize for not replying sooner but I've been really swamped at work
>> and summer isn't the best time of the year for me to get work done.  I'm
>> still hoping to get version 5 out before the end of the summer although
>> at this point it's looking unlikely.  I'm getting close to finishing the
>> symbol library table configuration wizard.  Once that's done, I'll use
>> the symbol library table ID to access symbols.  Once this code is
>> stable, I will announce a last call before we branch version 5 to start
>> preparing for the release.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>> On 5/31/2017 8:25 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
>>> I am still hoping to land the following features in 5.0 if the schedule
>>> allows:
>>>
>>> - GerbView GAL
>>> - Color themes
>>>
>>> I have been away from the project for the past few months due to life
>>> stuff getting in the way, but starting to get back in to it.  My first
>>> priority is getting my GerbView GAL branch to the point where I can
>>> submit patches (my goalpost for this is that nothing crashes,
>>> performance is good and no regressions, and 90% of features supported in
>>> GAL mode)
>>>
>>> -Jon
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      Hi Cirilo,
>>>
>>>      Since no one have replied I would like to summarize very briefly.
>>>
>>>      It seems that many people have been busy with other things, so the
>>>      list have been at bit silent recently.
>>>
>>>      The macos and windows nightlies have been down for a few weeks, but
>>>      are now sort of running again.
>>>
>>>      I have not had much time to watch the bug tracker too much
>>> recently,
>>>      but I know there are quite some reports about segfaults/crashes
>>> that
>>>      needs to be evaluated for an upcomming release.
>>>
>>>      I have less track of what features are supposed to og into v5.0.
>>> To me
>>>      this is still unclear, but I guess the biggest blocker is the stuff
>>>      that Wayne is working on. But I lost track of whether or not he
>>> needs
>>>      some feedback on something or not.
>>>
>>>      Nick
>>>
>>>      2017-05-29 8:34 GMT+02:00 Cirilo Bernardo
>>> <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx
>>>      <mailto:cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>>>      > I've been out of action for many months; what's the latest
>>>      > news on efforts/blockers for the v5 release?
>>>      >
>>>      > - Cirilo
>>>      >
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