On 11/14/2016 3:45 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> Den 14/11/2016 00.02 skrev "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambau...@gmail.com
> <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>>:
>>
>> On 11/13/2016 1:47 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>> > 2016-11-13 19:29 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com
> <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>>:
>> >> On 11/13/2016 1:15 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>> >>> 2016-11-13 18:59 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com
> <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>>:
>> >>>> Hey Nick,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The problem with the boost 1.61 bug fix in the master branch is
> that it
>> >>>> includes c++11 code.  That's why I didn't merge it into the stable
>> >>>> branch.  I want to avoid c++11 in the stable 4 branch so we will
> have to
>> >>>> let package devs know that they cannot build kicad against boost >=
>> >>>> 1.61.  If someone can fix the boost context issue without using any
>> >>>> c++11 code, I would accept a patch for that.
>> >>>
>> >>> Good.
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I specifically changed the version string code to accept only two
>> >>>> conditions for creating version strings.  Case 1 is using git to
>> >>>> generate the version string when KicadVersion.cmake is set to the
>> >>>> default which it is current.  Case 2 is that I (or the release
> manager)
>> >>>> sets the version and branch settings in KiCadVersion.cmake which
>> >>>> overrides the git version string.  I don't want developers
> setting this
>> >>>> as we have in the past.
>> >>>
>> >>> What do you mean by developers setting this? I don't think any
>> >>> developers have set anything here.
>> >>
>> >> Prior to the changes I made, you had to set KICAD_BUILD_VERSION and/or
>> >> KICAD_REPO to generate a stable version string.  Otherwise, you either
>> >> go the git version string or no-vcs-found.  This didn't work for
> package
>> >> devs who expect the source archive to build with the appropiate version
>> >> string without defining them at config time.
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>> Apparently package devs hate it because they
>> >>>> had remember to set the version and branch strings at config time
> when
>> >>>> building from source archives otherwise they end up with no-vcs-found
>> >>>> version string.
>> >>>
>> >>> Well, I have a hard time to see how the current solution in 4.0 is
>> >>> addressing this issue. Does this mean that on the commit where you tag
>> >>> it 4.0.5 will change the set( _wvh_version_str "no-vcs-found" ) with
>> >>> set( _wvh_version_str "4.0.5" )?
>> >>
>> >> Once the version is set to something other than "no-vcs-found" in
>> >> KiCadVersion.cmake, it takes precedence.  What I plan on doing is
>> >> setting it to 4.0.5 in the stable version tagged as 4.0.5 (hey that
>> >> almost makes sense!).  When I create the source archive, it wont be
>> >> necessary to define KICAD_BUILD_VERSION or KICAD_REPO.  Once that is
>> >> complete, I will can change the version string in KiCadVersion.cmake to
>> >> "4.0.6-pre" or something like that.
>> >>
>> >>>> I see Chris added this back into the master branch but
>> >>>> I'm not sure I'm going to keep it.  Developers should be using the
>> >>>> version string generated by git and package devs should be using the
>> >>>> version set in KiCadVersion.cmake.  I can't see any reason for a
> third
>> >>>> option.
>> >>>
>> >>> As it works in 4.0 now, I can't set -DKICAD_BUILD_VERSION=4.0.5_rc1.
>> >>> It will still use the git version.
>> >>>
>> >>> I would expect to be able to override the version string in any case.
>> >>> For example if I wanted to make a release candidate build to sort out
>> >>> some packaging issues, it would be nice to see from the build that it
>> >>> was a release candidate if anyone reports a bug on it.
>> >>
>> >> If you really need to be able to define the version at config time, I
>> >> can leave Chris' recent changes assuming they didn't break the behavior
>> >> of KiCadVersion.cmake.  Do other projects allow changing the build
>> >> version at config time?  I got the feeling from some of the comments
>> >> that this was "atypical".
>> >
>> > I am ok with it working the other way where we can have a hardcoded
>> > version in the source for the stable branch. But really, I think it
>> > should be set now as 4.0.5-devel then. Although I do not have any hard
>> > feeling for using, -pre, -dev, -devel or whatever that is not -rcX.
>> >
>> > But I think it should always be overridable by defining it manually.
>> > For eample for the nigthly PPA's they have a version string like
>> > "201611122049+7349~55~ubuntu14.04.1"  and to track down issues with
>> > that if you want to know what exact build and source is used it is
>> > easier to find if that could be used a version string.
>> >
>> > If this happens, I am also ok with removing the KICAD_REPO_NAME option
>> > and only use KICAD_BUILD_VERSION to override.
>> >
>> > I hope you can understand why I still want it to be overridable.
>>
>> I'm fine with that.  I guess I should have asked before I removed it.
>> The order of precedence should be: configuration defined,
>> KiCadVersion.cmake, then the git version.  @Chris, is this what your
>> changes do?  I didn't get time to look at them and this week is going to
>> be crazy at work so I may not have time to look over them until next
>> weekend.
>>
> 
> As far as I see, Chris made two changes. A bugfix such that it was
> actually possible to define the version when a .git is present, and the
> other change with the repo name variable.
> 
> I have not tested it with changing the content of the KicadVersion.cnake
> file. If you want I can try to look deeper and align the behaivour in
> both branches.

If you have time to confirm the version string precedence criteria, I
would appreciate it.  The other thing to do is rename the .git folder
and test it as though it were source archive as well.  If it meets the
precedence criteria, I can merge it into the stable branch.

Thanks,

Wayne

> 
>> >
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I will be in an out all day today so if I don't reply I'm not
> ignoring
>> >>>> you I've just got a full plate today and will respond as soon as
> I get a
>> >>>> chance.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Cheers,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Wayne
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On 11/12/2016 11:55 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>> >>>>> Hi Wayne,
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Good news to see a new release, but I wonder about two things:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> 1. Boost 1.61 compatibility and bugfix?
>> >>>>> 2. Release version string.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Should the release should include the boost 1.61 fix. It was
> discussed in:
>> >>>>> [Kicad-developers] About Bug 1604841: Pcbnew crash at moving
> via, and
>> >>>>> boost::context fixes to make it compatible with boost 1.61
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> And there is a patch in [1], although it does not explicitly state
>> >>>>> where it is from, but it looks similar to [2] and [3]. With out the
>> >>>>> patch in [1] I can not build it against boost 1.62 on archlinux.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Secondly, I would like to know how we are supposed to set the
> release
>> >>>>> infor for the version string. For the 4.0.0--4.0.4 you are
> supposed to
>> >>>>> use the following options to set the version string:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> -DKICAD_REPO_NAME=stable -DKICAD_BUILD_VERSION=4.0.5
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> But KICAD_REPO_NAME does not seem to exist anymore... even though I
>> >>>>> set KICAD_BUILD_VERSION it gets overridden by the git info and the
>> >>>>> version string becomes:
>> >>>>> #define KICAD_FULL_VERSION "(2016-11-09 revision 18f77b8)-4.0"
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I would have expected to get something like we are used to as,
>> >>>>> "4.0.5-stable" for example.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Nick
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> [1]
> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/boost-1.61.patch?h=packages/kicad
>> >>>>> [2]
> https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/commit/?id=06d4894fdbeb00727cdcc667b8899ad73d8eb1c2
>> >>>>> [3]
> https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/commit/?id=78bc3c65de6c03d19be9902327d08cd4d87c229c
>> >>>>> [4] https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg25556.html
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> 2016-11-11 23:44 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com
> <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>>:
>> >>>>>> This is the last call for patches to the 4 stable branch.  If I
> don't
>> >>>>>> hear anything, I will set version string and tag 4.0.5 in the
> stable
>> >>>>>> branch on Sunday and give our library, doc, translation, and
> package
>> >>>>>> devs a couple of weeks to prepare before I make the official
> announcement.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Thanks,
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Wayne
>> >>>>>>
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