Re: [Kicad-developers] V7 Python API Development

2022-05-21 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
. Eeli Kaikkonen On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 6:59 PM Seth Hillbrand wrote: > Hi Oliver- > > I'm still working on backend stuff to synchronize eeschema/pcbnew. > > Is there something in particular that you'd like to work on? Maybe I can > spin off a section for you. > > Seth

Re: [Kicad-developers] V6 documentation

2022-01-20 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
. Eeli Kaikkonen On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 5:59 PM Carsten Schoenert wrote: > > Hi, > > Am 19.01.22 um 23:18 schrieb Eeli Kaikkonen: > > > I don't understand why this discussion is so difficult to understand. > > sorry but I don't understand what problem you are trying to s

Re: [Kicad-developers] V6 documentation

2022-01-19 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
e automatic tagging which adds a tag each day. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Kicad-developers] V6 documentation

2022-01-19 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 6:38 PM Jon Evans wrote: > > What I would propose to improve the situation is: Here's a wild idea: why not make the documentation bundle(s) downloadable with the PCM? Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchp

Re: [Kicad-developers] New lead developer announcement

2021-11-19 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
tation > to become a member of the KiCad lead development team. Mikolaj has made > some significant contributions to the KiCad project and I look forward > to his contributions as lead developer. Please join me in > congratulating Mikolaj in his new rol

Re: [Kicad-developers] Question about attributes and complex hierarchies

2021-11-17 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
sheet variables (text/string replacement variables) which is a new feature. You can add a Field to sheet instance Properties and then use it with ${} syntax in symbol fields. It resolves the variable for the generated BOM, too. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Kicad-developers] Python 3 now required

2021-06-14 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
sy to find them because they pointed to python 2. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://hel

Re: [Kicad-developers] Python 3 now required

2021-06-04 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
ython 3.6 if we can > handle dynamic reloads. > > CMake test is for >= 3.6, so this is a problem when someone has 3.6 (as already happened at least once; see https://forum.kicad.info/t/kicad-build-error-netlist/29597/12?u=eelik). Should the requirement be cha

Re: [Kicad-developers] OCE vs. OCC default build flag

2021-05-18 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
another source (ie. a PPA) for the support libraries? > Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https

Re: [Kicad-developers] OCE vs. OCC default build flag

2021-05-17 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
I couldn't install the build dependencies which would make it possible to compile 5.99 with wxPhoenix. There was something strange about it. But that's offtopic. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to

Re: [Kicad-developers] OCE vs. OCC default build flag

2021-05-17 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
As far as I can tell, Ubuntu and all derivatives, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian (if I remember correctly), Arch and Manjaro already use OCC so that the latest available KiCad 5.99 (and even 5.1) packages for the latest available distro versions use OCC. Only gentoo KiCad 5.1 seems to use OCE. Because

[Kicad-developers] OCE vs. OCC default build flag

2021-05-16 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
) I noticed that all distros I tried have OCC instead of OCE. Should the default build flag be changed to be OCC instead of OCE? Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Kicad-developers] Compiling KiCAD 5.99 on Raspberry Pi (400)

2021-04-28 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
ros recently and haven't needed to patch anything. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Kicad-developers] Compiling KiCAD 5.99 on Raspberry Pi (400)

2021-04-28 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
libcurl3-gnutls are preinstalled but obviously neither of them > is the needed. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-dev

[Kicad-developers] schematic.cpp includes sim/ngspice.h and consequently sharedspice.h

2021-03-18 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
I have disabled ngspice in cmake settings but in a recent commit by Wayne #include , which in turn includes ngspice/sharedspice.h, was added to schematic.cpp which makes compilation fail apparently because I don't have ngspice at all. Eeli Kaikkonen

[Kicad-developers] canvas_type configuration in different subprograms in 5.99?

2021-01-11 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
edit.json:"canvas_type": 2, pl_editor.json: "canvas_type": 1, Does it actually mean the same thing in all these files, and why the inconsistency? Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post

Re: [Kicad-developers] Nightly Ubuntu packages - 3d models path problem

2021-01-05 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
I think the situation is in flux, see https://forum.kicad.info/t/system-variables-and-windows-nightly-installer-change/26735/17?u=eelik . On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 6:34 PM Mark Robson wrote: > Hi, > > I've been testing the amazing nightly builds on Ubuntu 20 for some time > now - but now the 3d

Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D-Viewer: limit scale to positive values?

2020-09-29 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
y been marked as opinion :) https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/3453 Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

[Kicad-developers] Some linker errors, and question about qa

2020-09-14 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
A_TESTS enabled? I'm not sure what the qa subdir should do, but I don't think I need or want it. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launc

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema unusable for two or three days

2020-09-12 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
awing some graphic lines. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

[Kicad-developers] Compilation doesn't find class_via.h

2020-09-08 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
error: class_via.h: No such file or directory 26 | #include | ^ Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net

Re: [Kicad-developers] Something wrong with Windows nightly builds (1 Aug)?

2020-08-02 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
I assume this was due to what I highlighted in my previous email ( >> https://www.mail-archive.com/kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net/msg38706.html). >> The build was broken for Windows. >> >> I submitted a merge request ( >> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/322)

[Kicad-developers] Something wrong with Windows nightly builds (1 Aug)?

2020-08-01 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
available, I think there should be one or two of them. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https

Re: [Kicad-developers] Castellated edge support in v5.99

2020-07-23 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
it's close to the edge which is outside the pad. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

[Kicad-developers] Castellated edge support in v5.99

2020-07-23 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
ponent. This would also allow non-castellated edge plating with a footprint (which must otherwise be handled with local rules, like castellation). Finally, being able to select a bunch of violation markers - for example for one footprint - and excluding them permanently

Re: [Kicad-developers] DRC ladybug symbol origin

2020-07-17 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Do an image google search for "debug icon ladybug" and you'll see quite many debugging related ladybugs. I think it has been used as a symbol because it's easily recognizable and cute. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(engineering). On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 6:16 AM Brian Piccioni wrote: > >

Re: [Kicad-developers] Scripting hooks

2020-07-01 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
calling an action script is done explicitly by the user. Some hook use cases could be replaced by a better action script system (namely implementing free hotkey assignment to call action scripts so that e.g. Save could be replaced by an action script which then calls Save), but not all (like the window title

Re: [Kicad-developers] Scripting hooks

2020-06-30 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
imple hook to make it possible and implement the GUI later, or 2) not make it possible until someone implements the GUI? Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net U

[Kicad-developers] Scripting hooks

2020-06-30 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
and often should be some reasonable default behavior, but the user could decide if it's enough. If the proper infrastructure (asset installer and repository) will be made, the users could share what they have. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://lau

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitLab milestone cleanup

2020-06-26 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
, and even more can(?) be moved later. It would be better to have them in Future milestone than keep them in v6 milestone or remove the milestone completely. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-devel

Re: [Kicad-developers] Poll: how does autocomplete filter?

2020-05-30 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Definitely leaving only matching items and removing others. Eeli Kaikkonen On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 5:50 PM Jeff Young wrote: > One strategy is to highlight the first match as you type, but leave the > menu entries unchanged. > > Another strategy is to remove the un-matched

Re: [Kicad-developers] 5.1.6 Release Update

2020-05-15 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
the updated libraries. > > -Ian > > The lite installers are are very important for nightly and testing packages which users may download daily. Not as much for stable releases which are downloaded usually once in a couple of months or so. Eeli Kaikkonen

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema annotate block / specific component types proposal

2020-05-10 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 4:20 PM James Jackson wrote: > I would really have liked the ability to only automatically annotate > either a selected block of components, and/or only a subset of the > component types. > For reference, see https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues

[Kicad-developers] Separate download server directory for each Windows nightly build installer version?

2020-04-24 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
file. Now I have to check every time which one is what I want so that I don't download a wrong one by accident (which has happened). (The same is of course true for the 5.1 testing builds.) Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad

Re: [Kicad-developers] Duplicates in the issue database

2020-03-20 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
s duplicated). It is just not required to be used. > Wow, how didn't I notice it! Is it OK if I start using it for all duplicates? Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Duplicates in the issue database

2020-03-20 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
es (which already are duplicates in gitlab) which would make searching and detecting easier and explicit because gitlab doesn't have that functionality. For example searching only for duplicates or non-duplicates, and seeing the reason for closing right in the list of issues. Eeli

Re: [Kicad-developers] Duplicates in the issue database

2020-03-20 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
e report, but the general problem of not seeing the exact relationship of two reports of which one is closed as being a duplicate. It would help if the reason for duplicate status would be explained. It may be obvious to a developer who changes the status, but not to those who later read the repor

[Kicad-developers] Duplicates in the issue database

2020-03-19 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
quot; isn't a good label for an issue which is related but isn't actually a duplicate - duplicate would mean "this issue covers everything but nothing more than that other one", or at least so much that it's self-evident to whoever reads them. The main point is t

[Kicad-developers] Who has access to confidential issues?

2020-02-28 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
evelopers have access to confidential issues? Obviously it shouldn't be so. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developer

Re: [Kicad-developers] [5.1.5] i965: Failed to submit batchbuffer

2020-02-27 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Have you tried an internet search? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107147 On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 11:13 AM BERTRAND Joël wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use pcbnew to route a huge PCB and pcbnew randomly > aborts > with following error : > > "i965: Failed to

Re: [Kicad-developers] DRC reports

2020-02-25 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
. There's still free space for a tab or two. Indeed, post-v5 the footprint warnings have got their own. I have always thought that the messages about non-continous edge cut don't belong with the rest, so I would move them to their own tab. Eeli Kaikkonen _

Re: [Kicad-developers] Proposal to update eeSchema annotation?

2020-02-24 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Alexander, I filed a bug report https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/issues/3933 "No Undo for Annotate dialog annotation". Could you copy your text there as a comment? Eeli Kaikkonen On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:43 AM Alexander Shuklin wrote: > Hi anybody! > Sorry if there too

Re: [Kicad-developers] Proposal to update eeSchema annotation?

2020-02-23 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
C Undo has worked previously. These must be reported separately, right? (I'm asking from the senior developers.) Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : htt

Re: [Kicad-developers] What does /path do in PCBNew files?

2020-02-15 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
d. At some point I noticed that somehow the refdes was changed back. Only later I realized that now there were two footprints tied to the same symbol and normal updating PCB from schematic changed the refdes back. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https

Re: [Kicad-developers] What does /path do in PCBNew files?

2020-02-15 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
footprints with different refdes to point to one symbol because the symbol has only one refdes. Having identical paths in more than one footprints is problematic anyways. I have used it but I don't recommend it. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://lau

Re: [Kicad-developers] What does /path do in PCBNew files?

2020-02-15 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
It's the symbol ID from the schematic. This defines the connection between the symbol in the schematic file and the footprint in the layout file. Indeed I have intended to ask about copying this in pcbnew. There's no way to change (remove) it in pcbnew. Once a footprint is pasted or duplicated

[Kicad-developers] Status of improved drawing tools?

2020-02-09 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
forgotten from the roadmap? I also think there haven't been an issue for that. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-devel

[Kicad-developers] File format specifications, again (broken link)

2020-02-07 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
all file format and other possible specs to gitlab if at all possible. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More

Re: [Kicad-developers] Creating new icons

2020-02-02 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
he Annotate Schematic dialog in eeschema? It has similar icons, maybe they are reusable. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-de

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Implement auto annotation on component/symbol placement.

2020-01-27 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Zficani, are you still working on this? It came up in https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/issues/1973#note_277712551. You could fork in gitlab and make it a merge request. Eeli Kaikkonen On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 3:58 AM Zficani Zficani wrote: > Hi, > I'm sorry for the delay but I final

Re: [Kicad-developers] Advice on merge request

2020-01-04 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
ppose a WIP merge request is recommended only for code which is actually expected to be actually merged later, not for all experiments. Eeli Kaikkonen On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 7:00 PM Jon Evans wrote: I see no problem directing people to your fork/testing branch to compile and test on their own

[Kicad-developers] Better handling of bugs which affect two versions

2019-12-31 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
-bug/20407/13 .) Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Kicad-developers] Why is -Wno-deprecated-declarations defined

2019-12-28 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
d, change message in fp_lib_table.cpp," so I don't know what the actual > reasoning behind the change was. > > A tongue-in-cheeck suggestion: don't let any commit go to the repo if the commit message doesn't have the word "because" at least once. Eeli Kaikkonen __

Re: [Kicad-developers] thoughts on hierarchical schematics

2019-12-27 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
if a user doesn't want to use it, and it would give as much freedom and new possibilities as possible with one unified generalized approach. It can be applied to more problems than just parametrized sheets. Would that satisfy your needs? Eeli Kaikkonen (not a KiCad developer) On Fri, Dec 27,

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Project manager: Recurse into dirs added via fs watcher handlers

2019-12-20 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
orks even though I don't belong to the group. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.laun

Re: [Kicad-developers] FOSDEM 2020

2019-12-15 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
ent information would be a good opportunity to test the wiki. It's very easy to use. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad

Re: [Kicad-developers] "copy default global footprint library table"

2019-12-10 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
https://forum.kicad.info/t/global-libraries-recommended-choice-not-checkable/19929 Do you hang out in the forum? If something looks like a packaging issue in Mac you could be "summoned" by mentioning your name there. And I just did :) ti 10. jouluk. 2019 klo 21.42 Adam Wolf

[Kicad-developers] Replace "affects me" of launchpad in gitlab?

2019-12-05 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
mean "doesn't affect me"? BTW, how are "weight" and "popularity" calculated, what do they mean? Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Uns

Re: [Kicad-developers] v6 roadmap and schedule (was Re: 5.1.5 released.)

2019-12-02 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
It might be good to add links to relevant issues (bug/wishlist reports) to the roadmap. Readers would find more details and take part into discussions. Now when the document is in gitlab it's easy to add some and make a merge request. Is it OK if I do that? Eeli Kaikkonen ma 2. jouluk. 2019 klo

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Eeschema: Add option for selection highlight thickness

2019-12-02 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
You can try with a merge request which I just made. It's a very simple non-code change. Eeli Kaikkonen ma 2. jouluk. 2019 klo 17.03 Seth Hillbrand (s...@kipro-pcb.com) kirjoitti: > On 2019-12-02 04:30, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: > > ADDED new option to set selection highlight thickness.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-11-30 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
ation time. It just makes unsuccessful compilations quite annoying. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-11-30 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
t anyways. Being able to update it from the layout to the schematic looks like an obvious missing feature. Eeli Kaikkonen la 30. marrask. 2019 klo 9.54 Alexander Shuklin (jasura...@gmail.com) kirjoitti: > Dear all! > Thanks for your helpful comments. I want to show you draft of what > I've

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-11-30 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
it successfully. Then I added your fork as remote, checked out to backanno and tried to compile. Can you fork from the new kicad gitlab repo? Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.l

Re: [Kicad-developers] v6 roadmap and schedule (was Re: 5.1.5 released.)

2019-11-30 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
pe 29. marrask. 2019 klo 20.28 Ruth Ivimey-Cook (r...@ivimey.org) kirjoitti: > > I'm not sure if it's been dealt with already but one of the issues I > struggle with is that component boundaries are the enclosing box, and > components cannot (AFAIK) be marked as not selectable. For example, I

Re: [Kicad-developers] v6 roadmap and schedule (was Re: 5.1.5 released.)

2019-11-29 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
lp if someone needs nice text for end users of a board. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Kicad-developers] v6 roadmap and schedule (was: Re: 5.1.5 released.)

2019-11-29 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
hing else, like waiting for some other large features (like the new file formats) getting in first. But this being the case, we'll just wait. Maybe some of the developers (at CERN or others) may want to share some information about their work if it's getting closer - it would just be nice to hear.

[Kicad-developers] v6 roadmap and schedule (was: Re: 5.1.5 released.)

2019-11-29 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
been anxiously waiting to be able to test them in action :) Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : http

Re: [Kicad-developers] windows 32-bit builds

2019-11-27 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
probably been Win7. Eeli Kaikkonen ke 27. marrask. 2019 klo 20.37 Mark Roszko (mark.ros...@gmail.com) kirjoitti: > Just throwing it out there. > > Is there any point in continuing 32-bit builds for Windows? 64-bit has > been the default arch for over a decade on Windows now. L

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin/3rd party content manager

2019-11-27 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
oper any more than a C++ developer (I have done some of both), in this context I'm personally more interested in getting the python part of KiCad forward. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kica

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin/3rd party content manager

2019-11-26 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
hly the same ideas than mine, although mine introduced the idea of a metadata repository from the beginning. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpa

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin/3rd party content manager

2019-11-26 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
, and be safe to use. Ian said: it should be flexible and allow different use cases and configurations. As we can see, there's no real conflict. The backend could be developed independently from the UI and KiCad specific parts. Eeli Kaikkonen ti 26. marrask. 2019 klo 17.20 Ian McInerney (ian.s.mciner

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin/3rd party content manager

2019-11-26 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
found. Of course that URL should be configurable, chosen from a list etc. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-devel

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin/3rd party content manager

2019-11-26 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
; anything. The upstream developers of content don't have to know anything about this. You can test this by writing a .plugininfo file for an existing plugin. Eeli Kaikkonen ti 26. marrask. 2019 klo 10.23 Eeli Kaikkonen (eeli.kaikko...@gmail.com) kirjoitti: > I'm in a hurry right now, so I

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin/3rd party content manager

2019-11-26 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
description file for any KiCad plugin and it will install it. I already did some. Eeli Kaikkonen ti 26. marrask. 2019 klo 3.46 Andrew Lutsenko (anlutse...@gmail.com) kirjoitti: > Hi Seth, > > Yes, I planned to write up my design in google doc and open it to > comments. I think that works bes

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitLab migration

2019-11-25 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
com/tag/two-factor-authentication/ How about designing, making and selling KiCad 2fa dongles to support the development? Releasing it as OSHW of course, like the one mentioned in the tomsguide article. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://la

Re: [Kicad-developers] Using OPT types

2019-11-24 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
A good IDE should be able to open up auto and typedef in a tooltip. Clang library helps here, for example Qt Creator uses it and shows the actual type when I hover over auto. Eeli Kaikkonen su 24. marrask. 2019 klo 19.10 Wayne Stambaugh (stambau...@gmail.com) kirjoitti: > On 11/24/19 7:12

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-11-24 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
just think it's so "simple" and can't see something? It's easy to see that number 1 isn't difficult and could be done with a python script (although many people would like to see it in the main KiCad, I think). Eeli Kaikkonen su 24. marrask. 2019 klo 8.57 Alexander Shuklin (jasura...

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-11-23 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
than 0603 and then update the shcematic based on the board if it fits. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help

Re: [Kicad-developers] Building Kicad on Windows 10/Eclipse/Msys2

2019-11-23 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
la 23. marrask. 2019 klo 11.11 Carsten Schoenert (c.schoen...@t-online.de) kirjoitti: > Hello Eli, > > Am 23.11.19 um 10:03 schrieb Eeli Kaikkonen: > > BTW, it's unnecessarily verbose to say "git pull origin master". Just > > "git pull" is enoug

Re: [Kicad-developers] Building Kicad on Windows 10/Eclipse/Msys2

2019-11-23 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
7/what-is-the-difference-between-git-pull-and-git-fetch or a git tutorial. (Now you can see why you shouldn't try to give extra information about git in these instructions. Those who want to use git can read a git tutorial.) Eeli Kaikkonen

Re: [Kicad-developers] suggestion: draw text selection as simple rectangle

2019-11-20 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Jonatan, have you read this forum discussion: https://forum.kicad.info/t/selection-highlighting-in-development-version/18694 ? Eeli Kaikkonen ke 20. marrask. 2019 klo 21.37 Jonatan Liljedahl (li...@kymatica.com) kirjoitti: > Hi list, > Here's another suggestion, to draw the bounda

Re: [Kicad-developers] Project save as

2019-11-12 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
r the reason of using Save As was, at least some layers are probably outdated and can't be used without being regenerated after modifying the board file. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kica

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitLab migration

2019-11-12 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
I didn't live when 4.0.0 was released :) I can see value in having for example all fixes for 5.1 series in the same place than the active reports, but definitely not old v4 bugs and probably not v5.0. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.ne

Re: [Kicad-developers] Project save as

2019-11-11 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Anyways, renaming the necessary files of the project to form a new functional project is the really needed feature and it's great to have it, with or without complex additions. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers

Re: [Kicad-developers] Project save as

2019-11-11 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
, of course). Eeli Kaikkonen ma 11. marrask. 2019 klo 23.20 Jeff Young (j...@rokeby.ie) kirjoitti: > Limiting it to a dash is just because that’s all Kicad generates. The > user could indeed use anything. > > So should we rename any file that starts with the old project name? I did >

Re: [Kicad-developers] Project save as

2019-11-11 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
a repository. That must be tested, I think. Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Kicad-developers] Project save as

2019-11-11 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
ma 11. marrask. 2019 klo 18.07 Wayne Stambaugh (stambau...@gmail.com) kirjoitti: > Isn't this this the same behavior as File->New? We should keep the path > creation behavior consistent. > It should be possible to use the same customized dialog then, right? Now it's different. Ee

Re: [Kicad-developers] Project save as

2019-11-11 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
picture). As you can see, it's uneven. Some gerber files were renamed, some not. (...Handle_Mainboard is the original name, ...TOF is the new). [image: image.png] Eeli Kaikkonen su 10. marrask. 2019 klo 0.31 Jeff Young (j...@rokeby.ie) kirjoitti: > He he… I know our users. I can be s

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitLab migration

2019-11-11 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Now the example bug report ("Implicit 4-way junction" etc.) is correctly attributed to "eelik". Eeli Kaikkonen su 10. marrask. 2019 klo 19.44 Maciej Suminski (maciej.sumin...@cern.ch) kirjoitti: > On 11/10/19 5:54 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote: > > On 2019-11-1

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitLab migration

2019-11-10 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
. marrask. 2019 klo 18.52 Eeli Kaikkonen (eeli.kaikko...@gmail.com) kirjoitti: > I got a false impression that importing the bug database currently has > some problem because those reports which I opened seemed to be written > originally by some mysterious username, while the subsequent comm

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitLab migration

2019-11-10 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
impressions of bugs in the importing process could be avoided if it was re-imported from scratch to create correct data (supposing that it was a bug which orson fixed and now works correctly). Eeli Kaikkonen su 10. marrask. 2019 klo 18.43 Seth Hillbrand (s...@kipro-pcb.com) kirjoitti: > On 2019

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitLab migration

2019-11-10 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
OK. Would it be worth re-importing everything even for this test database to avoid false impressions? Eeli Kaikkonen su 10. marrask. 2019 klo 18.27 Seth Hillbrand (s...@kipro-pcb.com) kirjoitti: > On 2019-11-10 08:17, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > > Who is this original reporter "

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitLab migration

2019-11-10 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Who is this original reporter "Fabien Corona (drinasaur)" who created all the reports? Eeli Kaikkonen su 10. marrask. 2019 klo 0.08 Maciej Suminski (maciej.sumin...@cern.ch) kirjoitti: > I have fixed all issues, taking into account the ones reported on the > mailing list and Ian

Re: [Kicad-developers] Minimum Boost version

2019-10-22 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
realistic. How many users would actually be affected if KiCad 6 wouldn't be available for 16.04? 1000s? 100s? 10? And if they continue with 16.04 until 2021, why would they need to switch to KiCad 6 before that? Eeli Kaikkonen ke 23. lokak. 2019 klo 3.05 Seth Hillbrand (s...@kipro-pcb.com

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitLab migration

2019-10-17 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
on, as well as from other people who have not separated from the first individual.” —John Woodbridge ) I'll stop here (otherwise I would contradict myself, if I haven't contradicted already). Eeli Kaikkonen ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-devel

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitLab migration

2019-10-13 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
ment it, it could be done (at least after further detailed discussion). It would imply that it has so low priority that it probably won't be implemented by the current development team, although anyone can take it under work later. That would give positive and meaningful signal for the reporter and

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Comments for a Layer Stack Manager in Pcbnew

2019-09-03 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
example lock the thin layers in a 4-layer board and let KiCad calculate the core up to the user defined total thickness. I agree with your comments about visuals and usability. I can't say about the technical aspects, other than it would be cool to have layer thic

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Comments for a Layer Stack Manager in Pcbnew

2019-09-03 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Found it and it works. ti 3. syysk. 2019 klo 15.21 Simon Richter (simon.rich...@hogyros.de) kirjoitti: > Hi, > > > Are the binaries downloadable? I downloaded > > kicad-patched-495-762dabd75-x86_64.exe from > > > https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/index.html?prefix=windows/testing/patched/ > >

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Comments for a Layer Stack Manager in Pcbnew

2019-09-02 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Are the binaries downloadable? I downloaded kicad-patched-495-762dabd75-x86_64.exe from https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/index.html?prefix=windows/testing/patched/ but pcbnew crashes before it opens. Eeli Kaikkonen ma 2. syysk. 2019 klo 15.06 Simon Richter (simon.rich...@hogyros.de) kirjoitti

Re: [Kicad-developers] Selection Highlighting

2019-09-01 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
For everone's information - there was user discussion in the forum: https://forum.kicad.info/t/selection-highlighting-in-development-version/18694 . Eeli Kaikkonen su 1. syysk. 2019 klo 6.32 Seth Hillbrand (s...@hillbrand.org) kirjoitti: > Hi Jeff (and others interested)- > >

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