Does it sound like I can make this release? While the application may not be perfect, I haven't heard anything that makes me think the packaging change is causing issues.
Adam On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 9:48 AM Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Andy, > > On 11/22/19 2:21 PM, Andy Peters wrote: > > > >> On Nov 22, 2019, at 8:02 AM, Adam Wolf <[email protected] > >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> > >> If folks on 10.14 or 10.15 could test > >> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/osx/stable/kicad-unified-5.1.5-rc1-10_14.dmg, > >> and anyone still on 10.13 or lower could test > >> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/osx/stable/kicad-unified-5.1.5-rc2.dmg, > >> that would be great. > > > > (On Catalina, not that I think it matters), one thing that popped up > > immediately upon opening a schematic was a message box “Illegal t > > entry found in project file symbol library.” > > This has nothing to do with your OS. Somehow you have remapped an old > project to use the symbol library table to look up symbol links and the > library list in the project file did not get cleared. There are several > ways that this can happen. Most of them involve manual operations like > copying a file from another project or using version control to restore > the project file. The list of libraries is cleared after the dialog is > dismissed so if you schematic doesn't have any broken symbol links, > there is nothing to do. This warning is there because an unexpected > condition occurred that could cause broken symbol links when Eeschema > attempts to repair the issue. > > > > > “Symbol libraries defined in the project file symbol library list are no > > longer supported and will be removed. This may cause broken > > symbol library links under certain” and this sentence is not completed. > > This looks like an issue with the message dialog layout on macos. The > full string is shown on Linux. Does resizing the dialog help? If one > of the macos devs wants to debug this, you have to add: > > [eeschema/libraries] > LibName1=power > > to a project file then run Eeschema to show the dialog. If the dialog > doesn't show, you have to dig around the eeschem config file to enable it. > > > > > > > > > The problem is that there’s no indication of what could be broken. > > > > When I looked at the design I didn’t see any missing symbols. I believe > > the design was done in a 5.0.x Kicad, based on what I see in this > > project’s kicad_pcb file. > > > > Also, oddly, in previous versions of Kicad — and this may be a Catalina > > thing, not a Kicad thing, I’ll test on my Mojave machine — the various > > application windows were all tabs under one Kicad window (the tabs could > > be detached). Now the application windows are all separate. This is a > > slight annoyance, in that the main Kicad menu doesn’t have a Window > > menu, so you can’t mouse up to the top and choose Window -> PCB (or > > whatever it would be). On a machine with more than one monitor this > > isn’t really a problem, but on a single-display machine it’s annoying. > > (Mousing down to the Dock, clicking-and-holding the Kicad icon and then > > choosing “show all windows,” or using the equivalent hot-key, would > > work.) Also you can’t do the various minimize/maximize things that are > > standard window operations on macOS. > > > > -a > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
