Re: [Kicad-developers] What is a global variable, and why we don't need them.

2020-04-12 Thread Andy Peters
> On Apr 12, 2020, at 6:50 AM, Brian wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, what’s an example use case for multiple projects open > at once, that isn’t served by multiple instances of KiCAD? I admit I haven’t > run into many reasons to have more than one open at a time in my own usage > other

Re: [Kicad-developers] Dev docs not updating

2020-04-12 Thread Nick Østergaard
@Ian McInerney It should work now automatically. On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 at 18:48, Nick Østergaard wrote: > > No, bjt wr just need to make sure it works. > > søn. 26. jan. 2020 01.39 skrev Ian McInerney : >> >> Are we required to use the Docker Hub registry to host the container? GitLab >> has a

Re: [Kicad-developers] What is a global variable, and why we don't need them.

2020-04-12 Thread Brian
Just out of curiosity, what’s an example use case for multiple projects open at once, that isn’t served by multiple instances of KiCAD? I admit I haven’t run into many reasons to have more than one open at a time in my own usage other than occasionally referring to an old project as a

Re: [Kicad-developers] What is a global variable, and why we don't need them.

2020-04-12 Thread Jeff Young
Yeah, I can’t believe g_RootSheet hasn’t gotten us into more trouble. I guess most of the issues I’ve seen to-date with the globals have been between edit frames, and since only SCH_EDIT_FRAME uses sheets we’ve been OK. (That being said, the last one was SCH_EDIT_FRAME and PLOTTER getting in

Re: [Kicad-developers] kicad2step runs for more than 12 hours and don't produce step file

2020-04-12 Thread Nick Østergaard
Hi JKB, Please report it at https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 at 09:48, BERTRAND Joël wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to export a PCB (50cm*75cm if I remember) to step and I > don't obtain step file. kicad2step takes 100% of CPU for a long time

[Kicad-developers] kicad2step runs for more than 12 hours and don't produce step file

2020-04-12 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, I'm trying to export a PCB (50cm*75cm if I remember) to step and I don't obtain step file. kicad2step takes 100% of CPU for a long time and I don't know if this process runs slowly or if it will never end. hilbert:[~/cvs/electronique/mateo_logique_5] > ps auwx | grep