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Re: Stable 5 branch status

 

It's exactly as insane as the cache has always been.  The only way I can
think of this happening is that the schematic was not saved after the
remapping and once all of the libraries are removed from the project
file but cache should still be valid if no save was performed.  Let me
try remapping this project and I will get back to you.

On 1/2/2018 2:08 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Ah, that explains my question mark case. That's insane.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 01:08:11PM -0600, José Ignacio wrote:
>> One big problem is that even if everything fails, the project will show up
>> fine with all symbols, but they wont have the remap done. at the same time
>> the remapper deletes all library entries from the project file, which
>> causes it to open with question marks only if you reopen it again after
>> saving. It should show the question marks before then or make better use of
>> the cache.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Keep in mind my problem is not necessarily that things are _broken_ but
>>> perhaps that they are so opaque that they only make sense in the mind of
>>> the designer. As I said in the previous message, we've been getting TONS
>>> of people on IRC who can't figure out how the hell to drive this thing,
>>> and I count myself among them. Still takes me like three tries to load
>>> an old project without it stuffing everything up.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 01:40:40PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>>> Please send me a sample project if possible.  I have tested this every
>>>> which way I can think of and it works fine for everything I throw at it.
>>>>  The only time things fall apart are when the cache is corrupted or
>>>> missing and/or rescues have be ignored.  In those cases there is nothing
>>>> I can do because the proper symbols do not exist anywhere so remapping
>>>> is not possible.
>>>>
>>>> On 1/2/2018 1:33 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>>>>> Are we really going to do an RC now without any more work to the remap
>>>>> stuff? I just had it ruin another project last night. It behaves very
>>>>> poorly when things also have to be rescued or libraries are missing, it
>>>>> seems.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 09:10:20AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/2/2018 8:58 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
>>>>>>> On 28/12/17 20:24, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>>>>>>> There are a few outstanding crash bugs that need to be fixed before
>>> we
>>>>>>>> can consider branching the stable 5 release.  Here is the list of
>>>>>>>> unresolved crash bugs that effect the development branch:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1562788
>>>>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1732274
>>>>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1738872
>>>>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1738999
>>>>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1739614
>>>>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1740253
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hey Wayne,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I fixed the remaining 2 bugs yesterday (the STEP import one is a bug
>>> in
>>>>>>> OCE). Please proceed with the 5.0-rc.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tom
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Tom,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!.  I wont have time to get to this until the weekend.  If there
>>>>>> are no additional critical severity bug reports by then, I will create
>>>>>> the version 5 branch.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wayne
>>>>>>
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