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Re: 5.0.1 Release Q

 

I was able to run the kicad mac packaging regression tests without any
issues.

I think we're OK!

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 3:29 PM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ah, so this may have been a tempest in a teapot.
>
> I've only been able to recreate/force an error with the 5.0.0 stable build
> under Mojave.  Does not recreate for 5.0.1 nightly build.  And I can't
> downgrade to check whether the issue existed under 10.13.  Adam is running
> his regression checks to verify nothing has changed.
>
> In the meantime, I'm going to finalize the SEGZONE fix for that last bug
> report.  Should be set for tomorrow if we still want to kick this out on
> schedule.
>
> -S
>
> Am Sa., 29. Sep. 2018 um 01:11 Uhr schrieb Bernhard Stegmaier <
> stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> I did switch to Mojave almost all of my machines.
>> My (own) old builds run without any problem on all of the Mojave machines.
>>
>> I just tried the latest nightly and it also works for me.
>> Only thing I have is that it sometimes doesn’t work on first start
>> (nothing happens) but if I try again.
>> But, that’s something that I always had with the official builds… don’t
>> know what the issues is here (I guess something with the security settings).
>>
>> More details on this?
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Bernhard
>>
>> On 29. Sep 2018, at 03:50, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I am not 100% up to speed on what's broken yet.
>>
>> Just for clarifications, we have to compile our nightly builds with the
>> oldest SDK we want to support, not the newest.  The issues we've had when
>> 10.11, 10.12, and 10.13 came out were all issues where users on the new
>> version were unable to compile KiCad without special patches (either to
>> KiCad or to the dependencies)
>>
>> I am surprised we have issues running our old binaries rather than in
>> compilation, but in computers, not only do things not work consistently,
>> they don't even break consistently! :)
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 8:40 PM Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I've been out on business travel this week so I haven't been able to
>>> attend to this at all.  This might not be a hard problem to fix, but
>>> sometimes it takes a bit as it can be an issue in a dependency.
>>>
>>> Between Seth and I this weekend I'm pretty sure we can get a good handle
>>> on the problem, but solving it might take a few more days.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 4:16 PM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Devs-
>>>>
>>>> We currently have an issue where KiCad does not run at all on MacOS
>>>> Mojave that was just released.  It may just be a matter of re-running the
>>>> full compile using the Mojave SDK but we should get that running on our
>>>> nightly builds.
>>>>
>>>> This normally might not be that big of an issue but the MacOS releases
>>>> are free downloads and get pushed pretty hard with pop-ups, so I expect
>>>> many users will upgrade soon with no downgrade path.
>>>>
>>>> I know we were hoping to tag 5.0.1 this weekend but can we see if there
>>>> need to be any post-fixes to get the Mac building for Mojave before we do
>>>> that?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks-
>>>> Seth
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