Suggesting users add github to /etc/hosts may be the single most user-unfriendly, UX-unaware idea I've ever seen proposed for kicad, which is a true feat considering up until a couple years ago kicad used to be the very epitome of those adjectives.
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:56:15AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > Replacing avhttp with lib curl is fine for the development branch once > we prove it out but I am reluctant to backport it to the stable release > for obvious reasons. I got an email from Dick today. He believes the > problem lies with the users router's inability to keep up with the > parallel DNS look up requests. This may be that's why it hasn't been a > problem for developers. My guess is most of us have routers that are > fast enough to handle the parallel DNS requests. He suggested adding > github to /etc/hosts so the host will cache the DNS look up but that's > still no guarentee. As an alternative we could either lower the number > of work threads in footprint_info.cpp (which also effects non-github > footprint library loading), disable multiple threads all together, or > make the number of worker threads configurable. I'm not sure if the > github plugin itself is also spawning multiple threads so that may be > another place to look. Has anyone tried building kicad with worker > threads disabled in footprint_info.cpp to confirm if this resolves the > issue? > > On 12/4/2015 10:10 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote: > > 2015-12-04 14:15 GMT+01:00 Mark Roszko <[email protected]>: > >>> I understand what you mean, but I am pretty sure avhttp did not test > >> certificates. > >> It did using boost::asio:ssl which has the functionality for it. > >> > >> in include/avhttp/impl/http_stream.ipp you can even see the > >> m_check_certificate option which kicad never turned off. > >> > >> > >>> I am worried by the fact most of Kicad users know nothing about > >>> certificates, and using them is open a door to a lot of bug reports (the > >>> fp lib table issues could be zilch compared to that). > >> > >> We would bundle it with the kicad for Windows and it should be fine. > >> Anyone else should have a dependency on their installed kicad package > >> on libcurl which in term will have a dependency on ca-certificates. > >> > >> > >>> I am thinking the certificate ca-bundle.crt is OK (cURL works fine since > >>> I updated it), but it is just not found by Kicad (It could be fixed). > >> > >> On two of my machines inside MSYS2, curl works just fine in kicad :/ > >> > >> > >>> I am thinking the certificate ca-bundle.crt is OK (cURL works fine since > >>> I updated it), but it is just not found by Kicad (It could be fixed). > >> > >> It can be by setting the paths within kicad. But its more of a MSYS2 issue. > > > > I am not exactly sure why it happens, but this happens on msys2 when > > you do not upgrade "properly". If you blindly pacman -Syu when it will > > update the mingw something something dll, which requires you to only > > update that and close the shell and reopen to continue the update this > > ca-certificates thing happen where https do not work. But if you do > > update-repo and then pacman -Sy to update it should be good at all > > times -- apparently. > > > >> Interesting is they compile with > >> _variant_config+=("--with-ca-bundle=${MINGW_PREFIX}/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt") > >> > >> so I have it in > >> D:\msys64\usr\ssl\certs > >> and > >> D:\msys64\mingw64\ssl\certs > >> > >> They do add a patch to curl that makes the ca-bundle path relative to > >> the executable. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
