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Re: 5.1.5 release tag

 

Thanks Andy!

Do we think I should create another build that's exactly the same but with
wxwidgets built as debug to compare differentially?

Adam

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 1:22 PM Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On Nov 22, 2019, at 8:02 AM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> If folks on 10.14 or 10.15 could test
>
> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/osx/stable/kicad-unified-5.1.5-rc1-10_14.dmg
> ,
> and anyone still on 10.13 or lower could test
> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/osx/stable/kicad-unified-5.1.5-rc2.dmg,
> that would be great.
>
>
> (On Catalina, not that I think it matters), one thing that popped up
> immediately upon opening a schematic was a message box “Illegal entry found
> in project file symbol library.”
>
> “Symbol libraries defined in the project file symbol library list are no
> longer supported and will be removed. This may cause broken symbol library
> links under certain” and this sentence is not completed.
>
>
>
> The problem is that there’s no indication of what could be broken.
>
> When I looked at the design I didn’t see any missing symbols. I believe
> the design was done in a 5.0.x Kicad, based on what I see in this project’s
> kicad_pcb file.
>
> Also, oddly, in previous versions of Kicad — and this may be a Catalina
> thing, not a Kicad thing, I’ll test on my Mojave machine — the various
> application windows were all tabs under one Kicad window (the tabs could be
> detached). Now the application windows are all separate. This is a slight
> annoyance, in that the main Kicad menu doesn’t have a Window menu, so you
> can’t mouse up to the top and choose Window -> PCB (or whatever it would
> be). On a machine with more than one monitor this isn’t really a problem,
> but on a single-display machine it’s annoying. (Mousing down to the Dock,
> clicking-and-holding the Kicad icon and then choosing “show all windows,”
> or using the equivalent hot-key, would work.) Also you can’t do the various
> minimize/maximize things that are standard window operations on macOS.
>
> -a
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