gEDA-user: git based wiki

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Clifton
very sexy web-2.0 AJAX goodness there ;) -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

Re: gEDA-user: git based wiki

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 02:23 +, Peter Clifton wrote: Hi guys, Recall there was some chat about git backed wiki software? I came across this one today: https://github.com/github/gollum Also, see: https://github.com/blog/774-git-powered-wikis-improved -- Peter Clifton Electrical

Re: gEDA-user: .sch primitive ordering [was: Collaborative Development of Boards]

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
paths, and as you suggest - we ought to introduce some user control over the z-order. (Goes to file a feature request about that now). -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729

Re: gEDA-user: .sch primitive ordering [was: Collaborative Development of Boards]

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 13:03 +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 10:00 +0900, John Doty wrote: (Goes to file a feature request about that now). https://bugs.launchpad.net/geda/+bug/704407 -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University

Re: gEDA-user: Embedded polygon

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
into the pcb checkout you made, and type: git rev-parse HEAD Please past\e the returned string, so I know exactly what version you're trying with. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44

Re: gEDA-user: Collaborative Development of Boards

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
That is a good idea indeed. Could you file a feature request for it please? https://launchpad.net/pcb/+filebug I would have called it spatial-merge ;) John -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA

Re: gEDA-user: Embedded polygon

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
this was the latest development version which was failing for you. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone

Re: gEDA-user: Embedded polygon

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
run doesn't segfault, but I can reproduce the fact that something odd is going on. I'll get back to you if I discover any short-term fix. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729

Re: gEDA-user: Embedded polygon

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
wish, I could try to reconstruct your design in a way which doesn't break PCB. I also need to file the minimal test-case in order to solve the underlying bug. (PCB should never segfault). -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ

Re: gEDA-user: Embedded polygon

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
. 3. Possibly some warning function to note the mistake when loading a PCB with bad clearances. 4. Longer term - do we need to revisit the maths used to create thermal shapes? How do we fix this without risking breaking old designs? -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering

Re: gEDA-user: Embedded polygon

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
-b pcb+gl git://repo.or.cz/geda-pcb/pcjc2.git More likely to have bugs, but faster: git clone -b pcb+gl_experimental git://repo.or.cz/geda-pcb/pcjc2.git NB: It doesn't crash, but it doesn't render correctly either. You still need to fix the clearances in your design. -- Peter Clifton

Re: gEDA-user: Embedded polygon

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 11:56 -0500, George M. Gallant, Jr. wrote: See the attached screenshot. Mailing list has scrapped the attachment I think. I don't think there is a better technique for now. Perhaps you could explain what the polygons are to be used for? -- Peter Clifton Electrical

Re: gEDA-user: Embedded polygon

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 16:31 +, Peter Clifton wrote: A fix for this belongs: 1. In src/thermal.c (to avoid producing BROKEN polygons) Actually, it seems ArcPoly () is also producing bad polygons for small angles. (As well as thermal.c asking it to produce some negative sweep arc segments

Re: gEDA-user: OpenGL branch

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 10:35 -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:10:11 + Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 11:49 -0500, George M. Gallant, Jr. wrote: What is required to run the OpenGL port? Just a working (and not ancient) OpenGL driver

Re: gEDA-user: Embedded polygon

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 14:15 -0500, George M. Gallant, Jr. wrote: On 01/18/2011 01:13 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 11:56 -0500, George M. Gallant, Jr. wrote: See the attached screenshot. Mailing list has scrapped the attachment I think. I don't think there is a better

Re: gEDA-user: Embedded polygon

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Clifton
(if there is such a thing) calculation to determine a thermal shape for a given pin or via? I've attached my work in progress. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab

Re: gEDA-user: FYI [Fwd: [Balloon] Balloon 4]

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 01:42 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: It is intended that these will be published in Altium format as that is the CAD package of choice for the design process. Why not geda in the first place? I've mentioned some reasons in other emails - I'll

Re: gEDA-user: FYI [Fwd: [Balloon] Balloon 4]

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Clifton
is, but I thought John was talking about one of the Balloon developers. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab

Re: gEDA-user: FYI [Fwd: [Balloon] Balloon 4]

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Clifton
The designers already bought Altium at some point Existing symbols / schematics which can be reused Production tested and optimised footprints Belief more than logic seems to be what moves people to choose proprietary over open tools. That is probably true. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering

Re: gEDA-user: Collaborative Development of Boards

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Clifton
- PCB designs are more like deployed web-software.. very linear in their development, and diverging branches don't make a lot of sense. PCBs are of course harder, as it becomes harder to partition and segregate areas of conflict so individual changes could be reverted. -- Peter Clifton Electrical

Re: gEDA-user: Collaborative Development of Boards

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Clifton
- PCB designs are more like deployed web-software.. very linear in their development, and diverging branches don't make a lot of sense. PCBs are of course harder, as it becomes harder to partition and segregate areas of conflict so individual changes could be reverted. -- Peter Clifton Electrical

Re: gEDA-user: Collaborative Development of Boards

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Clifton
Sorry, I sent this twice. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

Re: gEDA-user: Collaborative Development of Boards

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Clifton
could insert new objects mid way into a list. I'm not sure which (if any) edits cause PCB to create a new object though. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal

Re: gEDA-user: Soft and Hard symbols

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Clifton
, John Doty wrote: On Jan 15, 2011, at 1:42 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: I want to see all connectivity code move into libgeda, and flattening be optional. Connectivity is precisely the kind of thing that should not be in libgeda. I (and all other gEDA developers I've talked to) disagree

Re: gEDA-user: Collaborative Development of Boards

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 21:29 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: What about extracting the topology of the tracks (probably using / refactoring some code from the topological auto-router). Isn't this what gnetlist does? No - we are talking cross purposes I think. gnetlist

Re: gEDA-user: Rant about Make Inv Text Vis

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 08:03 -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:47:19 + Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Are there any use-cases for invisible text which is not an attribute? Since it might exist already though - we MAY have to add an: Invisble [x] option

Re: gEDA-user: Where to PCB patchs get submitted now?

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Clifton
/+filebug Which does not report as you quoted below. It is possible someone has fixed before I looked though. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab

Re: gEDA-user: Where to PCB patchs get submitted now?

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 17:24 +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 09:32 -0500, Bob Paddock wrote: I wanted to submit a patch to PCB. Launchpad tells me to use the Source Forge tracker, which can't be found on Source Forge anymore: Send me the link to the page which says

Re: gEDA-user: FYI [Fwd: [Balloon] Balloon 4]

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 11:44 -0600, John Griessen wrote: On 01/16/2011 11:32 AM, John Griessen wrote: So I don't see how that was a stopper, even without Bill's specific Altium experience. I meant Bob's I'm lost.. who is Bob? -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division

Re: gEDA-user: Where to PCB patchs get submitted now?

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 00:22 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: Ok, I found the quote - it was in our tips for filing bugs. (gEDA and PCB) Doh. I thought I had sifted through all the instances of sourceforge in the geda-wiki. Indeed.. this was on our LP page! (From

Re: gEDA-user: Soft and Hard symbols

2011-01-15 Thread Peter Clifton
. Not done. Would be nice though - but I'd rate it of similar complexity to a board auto-router. (Not as rigidly constrained topologically, but to do well would require a decent auto-place, and a decent auto-router - even if the rules are different to that used with a PCB). -- Peter Clifton Electrical

Re: gEDA-user: Rant about Make Inv Text Vis

2011-01-15 Thread Peter Clifton
as an attribute.. change the attribute visibility, then edit it with an explicit ex (edit text), to change it back. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal

Re: gEDA-user: Rant about Make Inv Text Vis

2011-01-15 Thread Peter Clifton
/Hide invisible text That is the one which does as you suggest. It is the option which _changes_ visibility we wish to kill. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173

Re: gEDA-user: Rant about Make Inv Text Vis

2011-01-15 Thread Peter Clifton
. There was no proposal to remove the ability to hide attributes, just the magic break my schematic button which makes every hidden attribute visible in a way which is not trivial to undo. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue

Re: gEDA-user: Soft and Hard symbols

2011-01-15 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 13:10 +0100, Stephan Boettcher wrote: What are the use-cases? IMO, only viewing of synthesis results, or matching up / creating a schematic which matches an extracted netlist - either from reverse engineering, layout extraction, or from another program. -- Peter Clifton

Re: gEDA-user: Rant about Make Inv Text Vis

2011-01-15 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 09:10 -0600, John Griessen wrote: On 01/15/2011 06:59 AM, Stephan Boettcher wrote: Yes, please! +1 Consider it napalmed. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel

Re: gEDA-user: Soft and Hard symbols

2011-01-14 Thread Peter Clifton
) if you find any API which is lacking. then another language plugin for the PCB format. I don't see how the two are congruent. Did you mean for extracting layout for simulation? -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue

gEDA-user: FYI [Fwd: [Balloon] Balloon 4]

2011-01-14 Thread Peter Clifton
http://balloonboard.org/mailman/listinfo/balloon -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

Re: gEDA-user: FYI [Fwd: [Balloon] Balloon 4]

2011-01-14 Thread Peter Clifton
as a whole. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

Re: gEDA-user: Print layout to a file in PCB

2011-01-13 Thread Peter Clifton
... - PS (or PNG etc..) -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5)

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Clifton
here.. so if / when anyone files bugs for these requests, remember to find gerbv at sourceforge.net/projects/gerbv -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal

Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5)

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Clifton
made to an existing design. Make the layers XOR logically but not the colors. i.e. old layer red, new layer green, deleted portions would show up in red, new portions would be green. Excellent idea. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University

gEDA-user: PCB Website [WAS: Re: Bug triage]

2011-01-10 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 12:39 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: The short answer is html + make This should be easy to convert to dokuwiki + make After all, dokuwiki content is just a set of ascii files. The make file would only be needed to distribute the files

gEDA-user: Windows versions [WAS: Re: Bug triage]

2011-01-10 Thread Peter Clifton
://launchpad.net/pcb/+filebug For gerbv, you'll have to brave SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=addgroup_id=33921atid=409538 -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Website [WAS: Re: Bug triage]

2011-01-10 Thread Peter Clifton
can push html pages and other content to the git repository though. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab

Re: gEDA-user: Windows versions [WAS: Re: Bug triage]

2011-01-10 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 21:19 -0500, Rick wrote: On 1/10/2011 6:39 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: I don't mind dealing with SourceForge, but I want to be sure that what I am reporting is considered a bug. When I use gerbv under Windows Vista the image on the screen is grainy and any features

Re: gEDA-user: Browsing the source code...

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Clifton
git natively, Canonical use, develop, love, and generally adore bzr, and I got the feeling native git support for Launchpad was not only not on their TODO list.. but that they would probably not want it even if someone wrote the patch. (Patch being a euphemism for quite a lot of code). -- Peter

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Clifton
/geda/+bug/sf-1800913 Or shorter.. since you don't have to explicitly specify the project: https://launchpad.net/bugs/698670 https://launchpad.net/bugs/sf-1800913 ---)kaimartin(--- -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Clifton
, and also reassured me that it was ok to make those changes membership unlocked. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Clifton
for PCB, and removed the forced line-wrap on both. Better? At some point I'd love to see the PCB pages revamped wholesale to improve their impact and visual appeal. Whatever ends up being done, I'd like the whole gpleda.org site to look consistent. ---)kaimartin(--- -- Peter Clifton

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 20:07 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: For full triage you have to be a member of the bug team (geda-bugs, or pcb-bugs). Else, you get no edit buttons next to the importance button. I'd expect, that this is configurable and the status can also

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Clifton
, the interesting statistic is more: TOP OS * Windows 79% of downloaders https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcb/files//stats/os?dates=2003-02-11%20to%202011-01-10 I wonder how many of those downloaders actually use it. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 02:18 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: Over the years, the download count integrated to an astonishing 150.000 Look at the source downloads for the latest release though: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcb/files/pcb/pcb-20100929/pcb-20100929.tar.gz

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Clifton
=pcbhtdocs.git;a=blob;f=Makefile -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

gEDA-user: Launchpad bug managment by email

2011-01-08 Thread Peter Clifton
Just to make people aware, it is possible to do bug management on Launchpad via email - if that suits you better. See: https://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/EmailInterface Note that it requires you to GPG sign your messages in order to prove who you are. Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-08 Thread Peter Clifton
. It seems there is no need to confirm that someone wishes something ;) -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-08 Thread Peter Clifton
to update status of bugs as we commit related code. See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pcb/+bug/700413 and our mindless helper: https://launchpad.net/~gpleda-launchpad-robot -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-08 Thread Peter Clifton
fixed it. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-07 Thread Peter Clifton
work. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

Re: gEDA-user: Apply to join the geda-bugs team to triage bugs...

2011-01-07 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 22:15 +, Peter Clifton wrote: Hi, Kai-Martin has rightly pointed out that by default, users don't have access to set certain flags on bugs - such as priority. This comes in handy if you know you're submitting a feature-request (which by default, should

Re: gEDA-user: Apply to join the geda-bugs team to triage bugs...

2011-01-07 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 22:59 +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 22:15 +, Peter Clifton wrote: Hi, Kai-Martin has rightly pointed out that by default, users don't have access to set certain flags on bugs - such as priority. This comes in handy if you know you're

Re: gEDA-user: Apply to join the geda-bugs team to triage bugs...

2011-01-07 Thread Peter Clifton
=field.has_patch.used=field.has_branches.used=field.has_branches=onfield.has_no_branches.used=field.has_no_branches=onsearch=Search -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173

Re: gEDA-user: origin/master ... origin/stable-1.6 ?

2011-01-07 Thread Peter Clifton
into the stable branch as well. so - in short, origin/master. PS: Any Peter A. around :-? I'm just heading to bed, and IIRC from IRC, so was Peter B. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel

Re: gEDA-user: Launchpad up running [was: SourceForge bug trackers frozen]

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Clifton
tracker they came from - rather than what their contents represent. We could consider adding the feature-request tag to them as well (for the contents). It would probably just require a bit of launchpad lib scripting. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department

Re: gEDA-user: Launchpad up running [was: SourceForge bug trackers frozen]

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 06:38 +, Peter Clifton wrote: Set the priority to wish-list, that should do it. I have no problem with the new tag in addition though, as it should help us find things which are deliberately thought to be feature requests by the importer

Re: gEDA-user: [Patches] GTK Recent-file-manager

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Clifton
review process, and lets us bisect / revert parts of changes which cause problems. If you already have the code in one big patch which is difficult to split up, we could probably just commit it all as a single commit: Improvements to the Multi-attribute editor (THIS TIME!) Best wishes, -- Peter

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Clifton
patches I had outstanding for gEDA are pretty stagnant.) [snip] (Yes, Peter B and I are friends, so I'm biased - but I think this all bore saying.) I think we can all be friends. Disagreement does not imply malice. Well said ;) (And I forgive Peter B for being an emacs user ;)) -- Peter

Re: gEDA-user: [Patches] GTK Recent-file-manager

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Clifton
. status 3. - status 1. (I THINK!) status 4. - status 1. (I THINK!) I would just let the user rely on the normal undo mech. if they screw something up in a way they didn't intend. Good luck! -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering

gEDA-user: Shutting down SourceForge trackers for migration to Launchpad

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Clifton
just do this on my local instance) Ask the LP admins to do the import for real Open the LP trackers for use Publicise change -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel

Re: gEDA-user: [pcb/lesstif] allow zoom out and pan more than board size

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Clifton
of my refactoring coordinate trasforms prior to landing the PCB+GL branch). Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Clifton
gEDA development has / had otherwise completely stagnated. (Yes, Peter B and I are friends, so I'm biased - but I think this all bore saying.) -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-27 Thread Peter Clifton
. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

Re: gEDA-user: Christmas wishlist

2010-12-25 Thread Peter Clifton
= Automatic (for design current density) Track_width = Automatic (based on net class) Track_width = 20mil Track_width = 30mil ... ... All ideas.. I'm not coding anything on this in the foreseeable future ;) -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge

Re: gEDA-user: get-package-attribute sometimes returns ? - ID: 3114991

2010-12-24 Thread Peter Clifton
to be equal to one screen pixel at a given zoom level. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Peter Clifton
-cut. Mirrored is also a possibility. ei. You should be able to get it back to a sane state where the text anchor placement matches the description in the edit box. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge

Re: gEDA-user: Toporouter crashing in GIT head on seemingly simple circuits

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Clifton
on the copper layers being routed. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

Re: gEDA-user: Test import of gEDA + PCB bugs on Launchpad

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 12:07 +0100, kai-martin knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: I've got something for people to PLAY WITH!: https://bugs.staging.launchpad.net/pcb https://bugs.staging.launchpad.net/geda Is it possible to have new launchpad bugs sent to gmane.comp.cad.geda.bugs

Re: gEDA-user: Converting measurements

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Clifton
. Just a guess. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

Re: gEDA-user: get-package-attribute sometimes returns ? - ID: 3114991

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Clifton
, the preset resistor looks somehow cramped compared to the nicely proportioned resistors. I think they are the same size though. Perhaps both need lengthening a tiny bit. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue

gEDA-user: Test import of gEDA + PCB bugs on Launchpad

2010-12-22 Thread Peter Clifton
WILL BE LOST. Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-20 Thread Peter Clifton
we get moving bug trackers sorted. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

Re: gEDA-user: overlapping via changes

2010-12-20 Thread Peter Clifton
like to see PCB support this kind of thing specified more generally than kludging by overlapping drill holes. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab

Re: gEDA-user: 200 bugs, warts and feature requests

2010-12-19 Thread Peter Clifton
. (Otherwise it becomes very difficult to track progress in fixing issues). -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared

Re: gEDA-user: Erroneous rats added to PCB

2010-12-17 Thread Peter Clifton
was actually necessary to flush out connections from the current net, before moving onto the next net in the netlist. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab

Re: gEDA-user: Erroneous rats added to PCB

2010-12-16 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 16:37 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: Peter Laurich peter.laur...@akamina.com writes: Has anyone else seen this problem? http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=3137324group_id=73743atid=538811 Hmm, I can't reproduce that with git HEAD.. any ideas? -- Peter Clifton

Re: gEDA-user: Erroneous rats added to PCB

2010-12-16 Thread Peter Clifton
/pcb.git -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

Re: gEDA-user: Erroneous rats added to PCB

2010-12-16 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 00:42 +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 16:09 -0500, Peter Laurich wrote: Has anyone else seen this problem? More importantly, any idea what I am doing incorrectly? No, and probably nothing... Any chance you could try a git checkout and test

Re: gEDA-user: Erroneous rats added to PCB

2010-12-16 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 01:10 +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 00:42 +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 16:09 -0500, Peter Laurich wrote: Has anyone else seen this problem? More importantly, any idea what I am doing incorrectly? No, and probably

gEDA-user: WINDOWS BUILD WARNING (WAS: Re: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 17:03 +, Peter Clifton wrote: I've used Cesar Strauss' minipack tools to build it before. This isn't particularly maintained, but the latest gEDA version is packaged up here for testing: http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda-windows.html WARNING:: A colleague

Re: gEDA-user: WINDOWS BUILD WARNING (WAS: Re: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Clifton
... I'll ask, but I don't think that was the problem from what he said. Thanks! -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328

gEDA-user: WxWidgets (Was: Re: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Clifton
for Wx was broken... they missed passing a configuration variable to the appropriate widget constructor to setup the GL context properly. That tended to result in segfault for some GL drivers. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ

Re: gEDA-user: WINDOWS BUILD WARNING (WAS: Re: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Clifton
wipe the existing contents! -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Clifton
+gl_experimental. For me, my biggest bugbear with stock PCB was the lack of layer translucency, and slow rendering.. so I did this: http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/pcb+gl_3d/pcb+gl_3d-6.png http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/pcb+gl_3d/pcb+gl_3d-2.png Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton

Re: gEDA-user: Blogging about gEDA development

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 11:15 +0100, Stefan Tauner wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:43:19 + Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: http://pcjc2.blogspot.com/2010/12/geda-development.html I hate SourceForge - Ok, that one was just me! no you are not! slow, paralyzing, unusable

Re: gEDA-user: Blogging about gEDA development

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 15:31 +, Peter Clifton wrote: ps: Comments on this blog are restricted to team members. not really in favor of crowd-sourcing spirit ;) I'm not sure when I set that - and team members seems odd. I've switched comments on for OpenID authenticated users. -- Peter

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Clifton
tools to build it before. This isn't particularly maintained, but the latest gEDA version is packaged up here for testing: http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda-windows.html -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Clifton
and put it on the main page to download section(with some neat warning). I am interested in the build process? Peter, how have you build this? mingw32 + Cesar Strauss's minipack build system. (Which comes with recipes for gEDA) git://repo.or.cz/minipack.git -- Peter Clifton

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-11 Thread Peter Clifton
presume on a Linux desktop. Anyway, if you have problems let us (or me) know, I'm always keen to hear of success stories with gEDA / PCB being used commercially, so I hope I can help make that happen. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9

gEDA-user: Blogging about gEDA development

2010-12-11 Thread Peter Clifton
.blogspot.com/2010/12/long-time-no-post.html http://pcjc2.blogspot.com/2010/12/geda-development.html http://pcjc2.blogspot.com/2010/12/pcbgl.html No posts in over two years.. then three in one night. Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University

Re: gEDA-user: TRACKERS [was: Re: gEDA-dev: Dev list [was: Random thoughts onthe future interface of PCB]]

2010-12-10 Thread Peter Clifton
this for an example: https://code.launchpad.net/~pcjc2/notify-osd/fix_dropshadow/+merge/42804 -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0

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