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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/25/2018 10:48 PM, Steven A. Falco wrote:
> On 02/25/2018 07:31 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 02/25/2018 07:25 PM, Rene Pöschl wrote:
>>> On 25/02/18 23:29, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>>> Stephen,
>>>>
>>>> I would say that you should pull from HEAD of each library.  This will
>>>> probably be acceptable up to the stable release.  At this point we will
>>>> have to tag each repo.  Are any of our library devs planning on doing
>>>> any major reorganization of the libraries between now and the stable
>>>> release?  If so, than we may want to tag the library repos for rc1.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Wayne
>>>>
>>>
>>> I asked a week or so ago if i should tag. Your response was that it is unnecessary. Otherwise i would have tagged the libs back then.
>>> l
>>> As i do not yet plan to ban major changes, i tagged the repos with "v5.0.0-rc1"
>>>
>>
>> Rene,
>>
>> I don't think there is a major issue here but tagging rc1 wont hurt anything.  The main thing I am worried about is the stable release and that the library layout structure and the library names remain constant throughout the stable 5 release series unless the user specifically chooses to install newer libraries.  Between now and the stable release, I do expect some changes to the libraries but we can tag as we go if we need to.
> 
> There are a lot of issues here that I am not necessarily competent to answer, so let me just propose a quick patch to get the copr builds to at least use the v5 libraries instead of the v4 libraries.  That will potentially enable more Fedora users to test with a consistent v5 of kicad, so I see it as a step in the right direction.
> 
> I've attached the patch, and I've tested it in my copr repo here: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/stevenfalco/kicad/
> 
> Basically, this patch replaces the v4 kicad-library repo with the v5 kicad-footprints, kicad-packages3D, kicad-templates and kicad-symbols repos.  It also sets KICAD_VERSION_EXTRA to the git "commit-count.SHA" so the version is more visible in the help:about dialog.
> 
> I received a pm from a developer off-list, who wants to split the package into separate components, uncoupling the libs from the executables.  That seems like a great idea to me, and lines up with the debian proposal, but clearly that will take more effort to put in place.
> 
> Please let me know if this patch is acceptable, or if you need further changes.
> 
> 	Steve

Can someone please help Steve out here?  I don't know where our fedora
packages are being maintained so I would appreciate someone confirming
this patch.  I don't know that there is much we can do about the
upstream situation.

Thanks,

Wayne

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>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
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