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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does it sound like I can make this release?  While the application may
not be perfect, I haven't heard anything that makes me think the
packaging change is causing issues.

Adam

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 9:48 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> On 11/22/19 2:21 PM, Andy Peters wrote:
> >
> >> On Nov 22, 2019, at 8:02 AM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> <mailto: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 t
> > entry found in project file symbol library.”
>
> This has nothing to do with your OS.  Somehow you have remapped an old
> project to use the symbol library table to look up symbol links and the
> library list in the project file did not get cleared.  There are several
> ways that this can happen.  Most of them involve manual operations like
> copying a file from another project or using version control to restore
> the project file.  The list of libraries is cleared after the dialog is
> dismissed so if you schematic doesn't have any broken symbol links,
> there is nothing to do.  This warning is there because an unexpected
> condition occurred that could cause broken symbol links when Eeschema
> attempts to repair the issue.
>
> >
> > “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.
>
> This looks like an issue with the message dialog layout on macos.  The
> full string is shown on Linux.  Does resizing the dialog help?  If one
> of the macos devs wants to debug this, you have to add:
>
> [eeschema/libraries]
> LibName1=power
>
> to a project file then run Eeschema to show the dialog.  If the dialog
> doesn't show, you have to dig around the eeschem config file to enable it.
>
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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