Re: [Kicad-developers] suggested resolution (and other specs)

2015-10-14 Thread Ian Woloschin
I had been running KiCad nightlies in a VMWare Windows 7 Guest on top of OS X about a year ago. It worked pretty well, no major issues. I blamed the occasional slowness to VM wonkiness and didn't let it bother me too much. I eventually switched to OS X native KiCad after I was able to get it to

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad scripting supported in the release or not

2015-10-02 Thread Ian Woloschin
OS X has a builtin Python (on 10.10 it's Python 2.7.10, located at /usr/bin/python). Can't you just use that, as it's provided by the system already and (almost) guaranteed to be there? Particularly on 10.11 since SIP would prevent it from being touched... Most Linux distributions also

Re: [Kicad-developers] Version 4 stable branch rc1 released.

2015-09-14 Thread Ian Woloschin
current libraries > > and docs. As part of the final stable release, I will create source > > archives so that the version 4 libraries and documentation remain > > consistent across all builds. I'm less concerned about this for the rc > > builds. > > > > On 9/13/2015 1

Re: [Kicad-developers] Version 4 stable branch rc1 released.

2015-09-13 Thread Ian Woloschin
Awesome! I'm working on putting together an ebuild for Gentoo/Funtoo Linux. I think I've got the binaries working, but when I try to start a new project there are no component libraries when I open Eeschema. I had thought the Eeschema components were included, and Pcbnew footprints were

Re: [Kicad-developers] Reminder

2015-09-12 Thread Ian Woloschin
Would be possible to also use tags in the GitHub mirror? GitHub allows you to do something like this to get a tarball: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/tarball/4.0-rc1 Could potentially save some time/effort in manually maintaining tarballs? I'm not sure if Launchpad has a similar

Re: [Kicad-developers] Reminder

2015-09-08 Thread Ian Woloschin
I think that there should be an easy to grab DMG that can be installed, but it appears to be trivial to use homebrew casks to "automate" the process. Keep in mind, casks are *not* compiling anything, they're just grabbing pre-existing binaries because it makes it "easier" (for CLI folk) to install

Re: [Kicad-developers] Reminder

2015-09-08 Thread Ian Woloschin
" into Jenkins so it happens periodically. > > Adam Wolf > > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Ian Woloschin <i...@woloschin.com> wrote: > >> I think that there should be an easy to grab DMG that can be installed, >> but it appears to be trivial to use homebre

Re: [Kicad-developers] Reminder

2015-09-07 Thread Ian Woloschin
> > > Regards, > Bernhard > > On 07 Sep 2015, at 17:07, Ian Woloschin <i...@woloschin.com> wrote: > > User here. I'd be happy to try and release a Gentoo ebuild in an overlay, > but I'd want an RC first, versus live ebuilds, which kind of suck, since I > believe

Re: [Kicad-developers] Reminder

2015-09-07 Thread Ian Woloschin
User here. I'd be happy to try and release a Gentoo ebuild in an overlay, but I'd want an RC first, versus live ebuilds, which kind of suck, since I believe they force a fresh build for every source update. I'd also be somewhat curious about trying to do a homebrew package for OS X, but from

Re: [Kicad-developers] Reminder

2015-09-07 Thread Ian Woloschin
t; Adam Wolf > Cofounder and Engineer > Wayne and Layne > On Sep 7, 2015 3:14 PM, "Ian Woloschin" <i...@woloschin.com> wrote: > >> Haha, no worries. I'm juggling my phone/laptop and newborn daughter, so >> if my emails are gibberish I blame a flailing newborn l

Re: [Kicad-developers] Reminder

2015-09-07 Thread Ian Woloschin
damw...@feelslikeburning.com> > wrote: > >> I think there already is a homebrew recipe. >> >> It would be nice if someone would make a homebrew cask recipe for my >> nightly OS X builds... ;) >> >> Adam Wolf >> On Sep 7, 2015 10:07 AM, "Ian Wolos

[Kicad-developers] Detecting Colliding Zones Across Layers

2014-11-17 Thread Ian Woloschin
Hi folks, I had a question regarding a sort-of-but-not-really bug that's bitten me a couple of times now. Most of my boards now are 4 layers, with the two inner layers being Power/Ground zones. This generally works really well, but on at least two fairly complex boards, I've had the misfortune

Re: [Kicad-developers] Detecting Colliding Zones Across Layers

2014-11-17 Thread Ian Woloschin
is to force an automatic zone re-fill before exporting gerbers? On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 18:22 +, Ian Woloschin wrote: Hi folks, I had a question regarding a sort-of-but-not-really bug that's bitten me a couple of times now. Most of my boards now are 4 layers, with the two inner layers

Re: [Kicad-developers] Detecting Colliding Zones Across Layers

2014-11-17 Thread Ian Woloschin
at 18:47 +, Ian Woloschin wrote: That was my original thought, but I wasn't sure if that was too heavy handed since it could break existing designs? Though of course, they'd be bad designs if they relied on this as a feature. If the choice is to force a zone re-fill I'd request

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release version numbers.

2014-10-19 Thread Ian Woloschin
From a not-really-developer point of view, I do want to at least recommend the user of year-based release schemes, similar to how Ubuntu or MATLAB, as opposed to the more traditional triplet style numbering schemes. From what I've read here KiCad isn't going to be doing more than a couple of

Re: [Kicad-developers] BUG in OSX Build

2014-10-13 Thread Ian Woloschin
But you can cmd+` and it works. I'm not sure that's actually better or not, but it works. On Oct 13, 2014 8:31 PM, Andy Peters de...@latke.net wrote: On Oct 13, 2014, at 1:20 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier stegma...@sw-systems.de wrote: No. That change was done on intention - everything is in a

Re: [Kicad-developers] BUG in OSX Build

2014-10-12 Thread Ian Woloschin
I am able to reproduce this bug, using 5173. If I open PCBNew before Eeschema then I just get a big red blob in the Eeschema window. If I open Eeschema first it's fine. While somewhat annoying, it seems to resolve itself by closing and re-opening the KiCad Project Manager, so it's a pretty

Re: [Kicad-developers] Build for software rendering only?

2014-10-10 Thread Ian Woloschin
wrote: On Oct 9, 2014, at 12:03 PM, Ian Woloschin i...@woloschin.com wrote: Easiest way to tell is using gfxCardStatus, https://gfx.io/, which will tell you what's running. You can also, sort of, lock it to integrated or discrete. I did a quick test and KiCad ran fine when locked

Re: [Kicad-developers] Build for software rendering only?

2014-10-09 Thread Ian Woloschin
This might be unrelated, but on most recent Macbook Pros there are two video cards, the Intel integrated GPU and a discrete, more powerful but more power hungry GPU. Usually you'll run on the lower power Intel GPU, unless an application (or external monitor) requires the discrete GPU to turn on.