Re: [Kicad-developers] File format version increment

2017-09-22 Thread Eldar Khayrullin
Hello. You should watch to Snappy packages: http://kicad-pcb.org/download/snappy/ Now need some work to update snappy build script (I have a small time) В Пятница, 22 сен. 2017 в 5:10 , Strontium написал: Hi Adam, Yes, on Linux one has to choose between Nightly/Stable if

Re: [Kicad-developers] File format version increment

2017-09-21 Thread Strontium
Hi Adam, Yes, on Linux one has to choose between Nightly/Stable if using the PPA.  The other option is building KiCad yourself, which I can do, but many can't/won't.  I was not sure of the situation on other OS's if you can install Nightly/Stable simultaneously on Mac, then its more reason

Re: [Kicad-developers] File format version increment

2017-09-21 Thread Adam Wolf
Strontium, I assume you are talking about linux based on the word PPA, but mostly for other people on the list, you can do this with the MacOS KiCad. Adam On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 8:59 PM, Strontium wrote: > This is a question for the distribution maintainers, > > Is it

Re: [Kicad-developers] File format version increment

2017-09-21 Thread Strontium
This is a question for the distribution maintainers, Is it possible to change the distribution PPA's (etc) so that one can install the nightly and the stable version of kicad, simultaneously? When things like file format versions change then people have to make a choice, do I run nightly and

Re: [Kicad-developers] File format version increment

2017-09-21 Thread hauptmech
Well put, Wayne and Orson. @Nox, I agree with you that it's better to have the user drive instead of automagic that may cause more confusion than help. On 22/09/17 00:00, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: I second Orson's comments. Our nightly users deserve our gratitude for testing and filing bug

Re: [Kicad-developers] File format version increment

2017-09-21 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
I second Orson's comments. Our nightly users deserve our gratitude for testing and filing bug reports. Thank you. I wish we had the manpower to support multiple file versions but it's a feature that has a very high cost for very little net gain. I realize it's a less than ideal situation but

Re: [Kicad-developers] File format version increment

2017-09-21 Thread Maciej Sumiński
Hi hauptmech, In the meantime, there is an ongoing work to support custom shape pads, which also demands a file format version bump (already done, right before the long pad names patch to avoid too frequent version increments). Such change calls for another set of if-elses to determine whether we

Re: [Kicad-developers] File format version increment

2017-09-21 Thread Nox
Would not "automatic file version switching" result into even stranger situations? i.e. that users of "newer" kicad version would generate files which are sometimes compatible and sometimes not without "obvious" reason? What normally is done is offering users to save as an older fileversion.

Re: [Kicad-developers] File format version increment

2017-09-20 Thread hauptmech
File version issues have hit me a couple times when collaborating. Solutions involve either installing bunch of binaries, stable first, then nightlies, until we find a compatible one, or 'fixing' the file by hand editing to a previous design. It would be really nice to the user if you used

[Kicad-developers] File format version increment

2017-09-19 Thread Maciej Sumiński
For your information: support for long pad and pin names has been just merged. As the change affects both eeschema and pcbnew, and may result in files that are not loaded correctly with older versions - the file format versions had to be incremented. Regards, Orson signature.asc Description: