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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Att. Wayne and Adam

According to Jonatans testing in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1841752/comments/9

It looks like ngspice-30 do work for him on the latest nightlies...

Next step, checking if the 5.1 branch testing builds are ok with ngspice-30.

If that works it may be because of some kicad-mac-builder changes that
fixed something. (I didn't try to correlate this)

On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 at 18:12, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If ngspice-30 is completely broken on macos, we may have no choice but
> to fall back to ngspice-26.  The brings the bugs that have been fixed
> since ngspice-26 back into play which is less than ideal but I don't see
> a solution unless there is a new release of ngspice that resolves the
> issues.  We should try to work with Holger to try to resolve the issues
> so we can provide a solution as soon as it's available.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 8/28/19 10:26 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> > Jonathan, I hear you.  I rolled back to ngspice-26 for the 5.1.4
> > release, and I think it probably makes sense to roll back to
> > ngspice-26 for 5.1.5 as well.
> >
> > I am not really comfortable with the state of this situation.  We're
> > running nightlies with 30, and release with 26, but how long until
> > there's a bug caused by rolling back for stable releases that we never
> > see since all the nightlies are on ngspice-30?
> >
> > Do I simply need to make another set of builds with ngspice-30 and a
> > set with ngspice-26?  Is this fine? Maybe? Am I overthinking this?
> >
> > Wayne, dev team, packagers, everyone--what do you think?  I don't have
> > any skin in the game here.
> >
> > Adam
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 1:21 PM Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> It would be great if you could roll back to ngspice-26 in 5.1.5, at
> >> least for macOS, since it seems completely broken (can't simulate
> >> op-amps, etc).
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> /Jonatan
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 1:58 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 8/27/19 3:56 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> >>>> Hi All-
> >>>>
> >>>> I know 5.1.4 is still in its infancy but I am hoping that we can plan
> >>>> for a 5.1.5 during September (fixing at least 2 critical bugs).  We've
> >>>> been a bit rocky with the point updates, so I'd like to propose a sequence:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1) Sometime around September 15: Tag 5.1.5-rc1 and announce string
> >>>> freeze to give give translations a chance to update and tag 5.1.5
> >>>> 2) At this point, we don't push anything to 5.1 unless it is fix for a
> >>>> critical bug.  No other fixes until after 5.1.5.
> >>>> 3) If there is a fix for a critical bug, we tag 5.1.5-rc2 after.
> >>>> 4) 7 days after the last rc2 is tagged, we tag 5.1.5
> >>>>
> >>>> What do folks think about this scheme?  Maybe a way to avoid the 5.1.3
> >>>> (and 5.1.1 and 5.0.1 before it) situation?
> >>>>
> >>>> -Seth
> >>>
> >>> Absolutely.  I was planning on this after the last debacle.  Hopefully
> >>> the 5.1.5 release will go a bit more smoothly.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>> Wayne
> >>>
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> >> /Jonatan
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