[Kicad-developers] KiCad git-based libraries as a way to harvest users' contributions - does it work?

2014-03-21 Thread Fabrizio Tappero
Hello guys, I have been mildly interested in the move of the kicad components library to a github repo. Mainly interested in adding a section in the kicad getting started tutorial I decided to learn how it works. A little bit from Carl and a little more from here and there, I learn that an

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad git-based libraries as a way to harvest users' contributions - does it work?

2014-03-21 Thread Alejandro Méndez A .
Hello, I've recently learn the process to get the libraries modify them and request a merge using git and I have to agree with you. I'm not a coding guy but I know how to code and I've already work with SubVersion which helps me. Anyway, I agree that an average electronics guy won't know and

[Kicad-developers] Build failed in Jenkins: kicad-qa #91

2014-03-21 Thread Miguel Angel Ajo
See http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/kicad-qa/91/changes Changes: [Dick Hollenbeck] Enable GITHUB as default, include typeinfo into kiway_holder.cpp -- Started by an SCM change Building in workspace http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/kicad-qa/ws/ $ bzr revision-info

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad git-based libraries as a way to harvest users' contributions - does it work?

2014-03-21 Thread Kaspar Emanuel
On 21 March 2014 08:10, Fabrizio Tappero fabrizio.tapp...@gmail.com wrote: When you get a repo because you want to contribute (either is kicad it self or the kicad lib repo) u clone the master repo, you do your modifications, you create and send to developers your patch, Done. Few days after

[Kicad-developers] Build failed in Jenkins: kicad-qa #93

2014-03-21 Thread Miguel Angel Ajo
See http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/kicad-qa/93/changes Changes: [Dick Hollenbeck] single_top.c logic, improved OpenProjectFiles() documentation. -- [...truncated 11867 lines...] [ 77%] Building CXX object

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad git-based libraries as a way to harvest users' contributions - does it work?

2014-03-21 Thread Carl Poirier
Maybe KiCad could be made to pull the new changes automatically (git pull https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library; or git fetch upstream if it's a fork) on startup? However this would require the libraries to be installed in a user-writeable directory. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Kaspar

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad git-based libraries as a way to harvest users' contributions - does it work?

2014-03-21 Thread Fabrizio Tappero
An other issue is that the current github setup require the hypothetical contributor to have a github account. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Carl Poirier carl.poirie...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe KiCad could be made to pull the new changes automatically (git pull

[Kicad-developers] OSX build fails consistently with same error

2014-03-21 Thread Jean-Paul Louis
Hello all, Since today, I cannot succeed to build OSX version of Kicad (BZR 4764). I can build all the modules (kicad, eeschema, common, cvpcb, pcb_calculator) except “pcbnew”. Before, I was able to address the issue with a “make” followed by a “make common”, and finally another “make”. But

Re: [Kicad-developers] OSX build fails consistently with same error

2014-03-21 Thread Adam Wolf
I tried to send an email to Jean Paul earlier today about this, but four hours later a kindly email server told me I sent from the wrong address. This is a bug that is already in the bug tracker. Do exactly what Dick says--cd common, make, cd back, make again. I know Marco was looking into it,

Re: [Kicad-developers] OSX build fails consistently with same error

2014-03-21 Thread Jean-Paul Louis
Thanks for the help guys. It progressed a bit further. But it died building cvpcb. I will send the error message on my new trial Jean-Paul On Mar 21, 2014, at 7:40 PM, Adam Wolf adamw...@feelslikeburning.com wrote: I tried to send an email to Jean Paul earlier today about this, but four