On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Peter Clifton <[email protected]> wrote:
> As I see it, PCB priorities (for me at least) are approximately: > > Release? > Merge 2D parts of PCB+GL drawing > Release? > Merge 3D parts of PCB+GL drawing > GUI to control PCB+GL rendering styles > Release? Before that first release on your list I'd love to see the health of the code improved. This week I've finished my latest board (25 sq. inches, 2 layer lots of complex polygon based partial power planes). The biggest problems I had were: * Lots of segfaults. Usual triggers: 1. "Find" on a complex net 2. Manipulation of complex polygons, including use of MorphPolygon() * Strange GTK HID UI bug - when drawing new traces the helpful outline that appears whilst moving the mouse disappears. This leaves you in the dark, guessing where the trace will appear in 45\_ or 45_/ mode is hard. Only comes up after a few minutes of editing a complex board. Work-around is to restart PCB (painful as I lose window layout, layer visibility and command history). * lots of memory leaks - wasn't actually a problem with 4GB RAM, but I could see the address space steadily disappearing during long runs of my high effort autorouter hack. Memory leaks generally aren't show stoppers, but I'd feel a lot more comfortable about starting to code new features if the existing code was first clean and stable. FWIW a quick run of dmalloc showed the following specific leaks, plus plenty of anonymous ones. hid/common/actions.c:269' hid/common/actions.c:46' hid/common/flags.c:41' hid/common/flags.c:71' hid/common/hidinit.c:171' hid/common/hidinit.c:250' hid/common/hidinit.c:659' hid/common/hidinit.c:688' hid/gtk/gtkhid-gdk.c:352' hid/gtk/gui-log-window.c:150' hid/gtk/gui-top-window.c:266' hid/gtk/gui-top-window.c:2997' hid/gtk/gui-top-window.c:3005' hid/gtk/gui-top-window.c:3034' hid/gtk/gui-top-window.c:3042' hid/gtk/gui-top-window.c:3306' hid/gtk/gui-top-window.c:3695' main.c:780' main.c:790' main.c:800' main.c:810' main.c:820' misc.c:1704' mymem.c:663' mymem.c:707' parse_l.c:2232' res_lex.c:1857' rtree.c:453' rtree.c:455' rtree.c:762' rtree.c:835' rtree.c:992' strflags.c:169' strflags.c:169' strflags.c:171' _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
