On 1/20/2012 9:05 PM, Adam Wolf wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't want to sound needy, but is there any sort of estimate on how > long you folks predict it'll be til the changes are made this way? Are > you expecting that's more than a year out?
Adam, It is at best a year out. I have had to curtail my time commitments due to other more pressing issues in my life. Given the current resource limitations, I don't see that being completed for at least year probably more. There are lot of code refactoring issues that need to be resolved before this separation can occur. I will continue to chip away at it as time permits. Unfortunately, that is just the reality of the current manpower availability. > If it's more than a year, I'll see about taking a stab at rolling this > in and packaging it... That would be great! This way the folks who really want this patch have it already packaged and it eliminates the need to work around it as the code base evolves towards the new paradigm. I would think that maintaining it will be fairly simple for the foreseeable future due to the amount of work that needs to be done. Thanks a bunch for stepping up to the plate. Wayne > > Thanks folks! > > Adam Wolf > > On Jan 20, 2012 7:28 PM, "Wayne Stambaugh" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 1/11/2012 7:13 AM, Wolfgang Spraul wrote: > > Wayne, > > sorry for replying to a 1-year old thread, but well, I finally > > got back to the KiCad cmdline patches... > > > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:02:20PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > >> The current version is 2730 so I'm not sure how cleanly your patches > >> would apply. Quite a lot has changed since version 2448. > > > > I upleveled the patches to 3351 (current head) at > > > > http://projects.qi-hardware.com/index.php/p/eda-tools/source/tree/master/kicad-patches > > > > cmdline-{common,eeschema,pcbnew,new}.patch > > > > Some of it is hacky, some is clean. Any ideas how I could break > > this down or submit somewhere? > > > > Some of it also is subject to discussion - whether it's better > > to drive cmdline execution through the DIALOG classes and skip > > ShowModal(), or implement a second codepath and duplicate some > > code. > > I have taken a pragmatic approach with the current patchset, typically > > favoring solutions that reduce the number of lines of the patch. > > > > I currently only implement a small subset of what is available in > > the GUI, and will add as needed. The options and help text try to > > follow the GUI layout and terminology. Below is what the current > > patches give you. > > > > Thanks a lot for working on the wonderful KiCad and making it > > as useful as it is today! > > Cheers, > > Wolfgang > > > > ----------- > > > > Usage: eeschema [--help] [--list-sheets] [--plot <str>] [--plot-bw] > > [--plot-sheetref] [--erc] [--netlist] [--bom] <path to .sch file> > > --help command line help > > > > --list-sheets list schematic pages > > > > --plot=<str> File -> Plot [ps|svg|dxf] > > --plot-bw Black & white (default: color) > > --plot-sheetref Print page references (default: off) > > > > --erc Tools -> ERC (.erc) > > --netlist Tools -> Generate Netlist (.net) > > --bom Tools -> Generate Bill of Materials (.bom) > > > > ----------- > > > > Usage: pcbnew [--help] [--list-layers] [--layers <str>] [--drill] > > [--drill-aux-origin] [--plot <str>] [--plot-fill-all-zones] > > [--plot-drill-marks <str>] [--plot-mirror] [--plot-force-a4] > > [--plot-aux-origin] [--plot-exclude-edge] [--svg <str>] > > [--svg-board-edges] [--drc] [--pos] [--bom] [--cmp] [--vrml] <path to > > .brd file> > > --help command line help > > > > --list-layers list names of enabled layers in .brd > > file > > --layers=<str> comma separated layers for plot > and SVG > > > > --drill File -> Fabrication -> Drill File > (.drl) > > --drill-aux-origin Use aux axis as origin (def: abs) > > > > --plot=<str> File -> Plot [gerber|ps|dxf] > > --plot-fill-all-zones Fill zones before plotting (not > in the > > dialog) > > --plot-drill-marks=<str> Drill marks [none|small|actual] (def: > > small) > > --plot-mirror Postscript: Mirrored plot > > --plot-force-a4 Postscript: Force A4 output > > --plot-aux-origin Gerber & DXF: Aux axis as origin > (def: > > abs) > > --plot-exclude-edge Gerber: Exclude PCB edge > > > > --svg=<str> File -> Print SVG [selected|board] > > --svg-board-edges add board edges to SVG plots > (def: off) > > > > --drc Tools -> DRC (.rpt) > > --pos File -> Fabrication -> Modules Pos. > > (.pos) > > --bom File -> Fabrication -> BOM File (.csv) > > --cmp File -> Fabrication -> Comp. File > (.cmp) > > --vrml File -> Export -> VRML (.wrl) > > > > ----------- > > > > Wolfgang, > > I apologize for not responding sooner but I been extremely busy. I > discussed your patches with the other lead developers and we decided it > would be better to hold off until we separate the underlying object code > from the UI code and implement it as a DLL/SO. This way you could > simply write a simple 20 line console application to do the printing or > anything else you would like to do. If we merge your patches they would > just end up getting removed when this transition occurred. I hope you > understand the decision to take this route was to simplify the KiCad > code base not any comment on your efforts. Thank you for making your > patches public as there may be other folks who would like to include > them in there own source trees. I hope you will continue to maintain > them until the transition is made and then convert them over the new > design where I'm sure they will be accepted into KiCad. > > Best Regards, > > Wayne > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
