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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Seth,

  It looks like you've got it under control.  I just wanted to make
sure that the possibility of other software crashing kicad wasn't
overlooked.

Cirilo

On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 9:54 AM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Cirilo-
>
> Integration here means using the internal parsers and routines.  I envision writing this as a routine that accepts input over KiMail and takes parameters as RPC as well as error handling in KiCad.
>
> I'm thinking of doing the same with ngspice integration for the same reasons you cite below.
>
> Best-
> Seth
>
> On Nov 30, 2019 1:57 PM, Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I noticed that the v6 roadmap has an item to merge the kicad step
> export. Although this is not difficult to do, I don't think it's a
> good idea because OCE/OCC does crash occasionally for various reasons
> and I wouldn't want it to take down kicad when it does crash.  As long
> as the exporter runs as a separate process we have the opportunity to
> check the exit code and inform the user if the process had crashed,
> but if it runs in the same process then kicad simply blinks out of
> existence.  Of course we could always assure that all data is saved
> prior to a STEP export so at least no data will be lost, but I still
> think this is a clumsy way to do things and we're at the mercy of a
> very complex third party tool behaving. The down side to using a
> separate process of course is that its parser needs to be kept up to
> date with any changes in the pcb format file, especially any new
> features which affect the mechanical model.
>
> Cirilo
>
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> On Nov 30, 2019 1:57 PM, Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I noticed that the v6 roadmap has an item to merge the kicad step
> export. Although this is not difficult to do, I don't think it's a
> good idea because OCE/OCC does crash occasionally for various reasons
> and I wouldn't want it to take down kicad when it does crash.  As long
> as the exporter runs as a separate process we have the opportunity to
> check the exit code and inform the user if the process had crashed,
> but if it runs in the same process then kicad simply blinks out of
> existence.  Of course we could always assure that all data is saved
> prior to a STEP export so at least no data will be lost, but I still
> think this is a clumsy way to do things and we're at the mercy of a
> very complex third party tool behaving. The down side to using a
> separate process of course is that its parser needs to be kept up to
> date with any changes in the pcb format file, especially any new
> features which affect the mechanical model.
>
> Cirilo
>
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