Re: [Kicad-developers] libcurl.so.4: version 'CURL_OPENSSL_3' not found

2021-04-25 Thread tiger12506
: [Kicad-developers] libcurl.so.4: version 'CURL_OPENSSL_3' not found Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 22:38:15 -0400 From: tiger12506 To: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Any attempt to run Debian Buster repo version of kicad (5.1.9), or attempting to compile (previously working on this machine

[Kicad-developers] libcurl.so.4: version 'CURL_OPENSSL_3' not found

2021-04-25 Thread tiger12506
Any attempt to run Debian Buster repo version of kicad (5.1.9), or attempting to compile (previously working on this machine some time ago) versions 5.1.8 or the newly created 5.1.10 result in this at runtime. kicad: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_3' not found

Re: [Kicad-developers] Patch to draw bitmaps in GAL canvases

2018-07-26 Thread Tiger12506
I know nothing about kicad's GAL, but I'd use one rectangle and give it a texture that is the bitmap. It's been too long since I've messed with it for me to provide an example, but maybe something like this page would help? https://open.gl/textures On 7/26/2018 5:46 AM, jp charras wrote: Hi,

Re: [Kicad-developers] kicad windows file associations

2018-07-08 Thread Tiger12506
That's funny. I hope Eagle and others change their file extensions so they don't conflict with Kicad's. Just saying. On 7/8/2018 3:31 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote: Thank you. Den søn. 8. jul. 2018 kl. 05.54 skrev Mark Roszko mailto:mark.ros...@gmail.com>>: Rejoice, the windows installer

Re: [Kicad-developers] RegEx help

2018-05-05 Thread Tiger12506
No, '?' also means zero-or-one in RegEx syntax, it's just that it *also* happens to mean "make the previous quantity modifier non-greedy" if there is a previous quantity modifier. Notice the double-question mark regex in the documentation quote previously pasted. That one means make the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Git noob question

2018-03-02 Thread Tiger12506
I'm not a kicad dev, just an avid reader of the list, but I am pretty fluent in git. Here are some aliases that you might find useful (that go in your ~/.gitconfig) [alias]     co = checkout     ci = commit     st = status     br = branch     hist = log --all --abbrev-commit --graph

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Rearrange Render panel of PcbNew layer widget; add spacers

2018-02-22 Thread Tiger12506
I agree 100% on separate file. As someone who puts kicad files in git, the most irritating thing in the world is having unrelated changes in your diff. Separate file gives you the flexibility to have either situation -- if you want the vcs to track it, you include the file, if you don't, your

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitHub Plugin (my nemesis)

2017-09-27 Thread Tiger12506
+1 on this approach, to me this is the obvious way that it should be done. However, my opinion is not important, I'm not a contributor. :) On 9/27/2017 8:37 PM, David Godfrey wrote: Hi All I have to agree with some of the other posters, why not use git as it was intended? Specifically I

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitHub Plugin (my nemesis)

2017-09-21 Thread Tiger12506
I'm making more noise again. Have all options been explored? Sparse Checkout + clone depth = 1 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/180052/checkout-subdirectories-in-git Using different branches to differentiate content in git. Seems weird... but why not?

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitHub Plugin (my nemesis)

2017-09-21 Thread Tiger12506
As a user, I always move to the edge of my seat when this conversation comes up. I sit there, waiting for awesome new features like in-program diff and pull requesting for kicad libraries, and then I inevitably sit back down because (IMHO) kicad wanted to use the github api and start wget vs.

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH 2/2] Remove redundant statement in WRL2BASE::ReadNode

2017-04-13 Thread Tiger12506
My opinion doesn't matter, but how about this for a comment... // ReadName has a side-effect of incrementing the parser, so it should indeed be called twice. I certainly agree with you that people shouldn't change something they don't understand, but I also don't think it's unreasonable for

Re: [Kicad-developers] UI improvements

2017-03-23 Thread Tiger12506
I swear the dev the list has completely and utterly hashed this out before. Maybe about when the footprint table came into effect. I mean, I know you can decide to change things now, but it was long and bitter and there was a decision made, I'm sure of it. On 3/23/2017 8:34 AM, Wayne

Re: [Kicad-developers] Version strings in window titles

2016-09-09 Thread Tiger12506
I like it that way. But I'm only one person. On 9/9/2016 11:37 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: Along the lines of the version strings - is anyone particularly attached to having them in the window titles? It's a bit odd, no other applications seem to do that. I kinda want to take them out, if just to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Git transition

2016-08-08 Thread Tiger12506
I was really confused for a minute when someone verbosely said git log master..origin/master Here's my current aliases. Aliases really make git awesome. Pay particular attention to `git hist` and `git ll` and `git d` [alias] co = checkout ci = commit st = status br =

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad New Main Icon proposal

2016-07-06 Thread Tiger12506
Again, my opinion doesn't matter. I'm merely commenting I find the pencil superfluous. No offense, truly, but a pencil on the icons makes me feel like I'm a fifth grader using a mac in grade school. I'm sure there *are* fifth graders using kicad to do cool things, but I can just about

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad New Main Icon proposal

2016-07-06 Thread Tiger12506
*My opinion doesn't matter*, but I would like to _remark_ that I find these examples much more intuitive than the current icons. With the current icons I get confused, often opening the footprint editor when expecting pcbnew, etc. I've come to accept that an open book or diary implies somehow

[Kicad-developers] libkicad_3dsg.so.2.0.0

2016-04-19 Thread Tiger12506
=HARD_CODED_ON BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON -- Tiger12506 <tiger12...@gmail.com> 23:13:50: libkicad_3dsg.so.2.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 23:13:50: IO_ERROR: Fatal Installation Bug. File: '/usr/local/bin/_pcbnew.kiface' could not be loaded Perhaps a

Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D plugin for STEP/IGES via OCE

2016-03-10 Thread Tiger12506
I have no authority in what happens, nor should you necessary take my advice, of course, but it might be wise to carefully consider how you want to store large binary data in git. If the diffs do not make sense, and are large, then you are using version control about as inefficiently as you

Re: [Kicad-developers] pcbnew file import plugins

2016-03-03 Thread Tiger12506
This email is merely a suggestion. I would personally approach it by having each plugin determine the file's eligibility to be parsed. After all, who can know better than the parser author whether or not a file will be successfully parsed by a plugin? I would NOT suggest having any

Re: [Kicad-developers] Grid in pcbnew

2016-02-29 Thread Tiger12506
Cool. :) > Dots are also coming to the GAL. Some people prefer lines, some other > dots, they will be selectable. > > Tom ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe :

Re: [Kicad-developers] Grid in pcbnew

2016-02-29 Thread Tiger12506
haha On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 00:11:12 +0100 Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch> wrote: > On 29.02.2016 23:55, Tiger12506 wrote: > > I follow the list and skim over every email. I seem to recall there were > > some changes made to the grid in pcbnew due to an os x problem

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pcbnew delete hot key behavior.

2016-02-29 Thread Tiger12506
On 2/29/2016 3:29 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: On 2/29/2016 3:25 PM, Tiger12506 wrote: I'm always accidentally deleting components when trying to cleanup a track that i didn't route correctly. I don't know if one is a good idea over the other, but I can certainly understand why someone would

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pcbnew delete hot key behavior.

2016-02-29 Thread Tiger12506
I'm always accidentally deleting components when trying to cleanup a track that i didn't route correctly. I don't know if one is a good idea over the other, but I can certainly understand why someone would think that. On 29.02.2016 21:41, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: Does anyone really think

Re: [Kicad-developers] Request/Question

2016-01-16 Thread tiger12506
I've set my default pull behaviour to rebase, so I can just leave submitted patches in my master branch -- if any one of them gets merged, the rebase will remove my local commit, and I have an excellent overview of which patches are merged. Simon Oh wow! I didn't know one could do that.

Re: [Kicad-developers] BUG FIXED: Opening pcbnew from kicad: ImportError: No module named pcbnew

2016-01-12 Thread tiger12506
I've heard Phoenix mentioned twice now. http://wiki.wxpython.org/ProjectPhoenix This language here ``` Phoenix is the code name of for the new version of wxPython. I called this the Phoenix project because in the process of doing this project

Re: [Kicad-developers] [rfc] actual sexpression parsing

2015-12-17 Thread tiger12506
Ok. I see. Sorry for the noise. Not sure how storing base64 would help. Namely file size savings and sanity. Instead of all those ridiculous X number of hex bytes on each line split with spaces, you have a single quoted entry that's a base64ed. And you can actually manually edit that, god

Re: [Kicad-developers] OSX glm include dir incorrect

2015-12-09 Thread tiger12506
A random thread-jacking... If there are any vim fans out there, I have this in my .vimrc nmap rr :%s/\s\+$//g so that if I want to remove trailing whitespace, I just ESC to normal mode double-tap 'r' and hit enter. number of substitutions appears in the status bar. :) On 12/9/2015 3:47 PM,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Drawing arcs broken in pcbnew and footprint editor?

2015-10-20 Thread tiger12506
I shouldn't really be hijacking your thread -- but I hate the center->start->end ordering for drawing arcs. I think it should always be start->end->(center). It's really hard to make an arc meet up with other line drawings if I have to calculate and click on the center first. Jacob On

Re: [Kicad-developers] [Patch] Add gitlab support to github plugin

2015-08-17 Thread tiger12506
I don't really have any stock in this, but *yes* to what this guy said. On 8/17/2015 2:52 PM, Matthew Beckler wrote: It seems very strange to target our software at specific implementations of git front-end websites. It seems even stranger to suggest to end users to install a web server to act

Re: [Kicad-developers] [Patch] Add gitlab support to github plugin

2015-08-17 Thread tiger12506
A vendor neutral git API Yeah, a git executable client. I'm not sure why it wasn't made to use a git client in the first place. I like the idea of KiCad being smart about retrieving the footprints from github, I'm just not sure why it needed to use the github APIs that only work with github.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Undo stack limit?

2015-08-05 Thread tiger12506
+1 - Just a user here, Thank You for this. On 8/4/2015 5:32 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: In any case, here's the patch to make undo configurable. I can edit it to change the default if you like. ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-09 Thread tiger12506
Just one minor detail, I would probably choose to have all selected as the default. Users don't like to read, and the less action they have to take, the happier they will be. Otherwise, you might have a lot of users with an empty table.

Re: [Kicad-developers] more pythonic scripting API for pcbnew

2015-01-24 Thread tiger12506
I have no weight in the discussion, but I really like Tom's suggestion here. It allows you to use them as if they were units. 10 * mm is almost syntactically identical to 10mm. And they don't get in the way with a bunch of boilerplate, like some of the other suggestions do. ~JS On 1/24/2015

Re: [Kicad-developers] Edge.Cuts layer in the module editor

2014-09-03 Thread tiger12506
Excellent suggestions. This seems like a reasonable path forward. I really like the snapping idea as an easy way to close the vertices. I always have to manually go back and use the segment properties to make sure each vertex ends at the same point if I don't get them right the first time.

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix clang warnings

2014-06-03 Thread tiger12506
Uhhh, or you could just split it up, like people do in other languages. ip = s1.Intersect(s_next); if (ip != 0) { } On 6/3/2014 2:18 AM, Heiko Rosemann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/03/2014 04:49 AM, tiger12506 wrote: This is a guess (i'm not OP), but it's

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix clang warnings

2014-06-02 Thread tiger12506
This is a guess (i'm not OP), but it's pretty common to shun assignment within an if condition. The second line probably just masks the warning from the compiler -- the check that triggers the warning probably isn't exhaustive enough to check within the parentheses for assignment. On