Re: [Kicad-developers] Placing real components out of a database instead of: "Automatic assignment of footprint with a database"

2020-08-29 Thread Tim Hawkins
https://calcite.apache.org/docs/adapter.html Apache calcite is an SQL query engine for non-sql data sources. On Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 21:21 Jeff Young wrote: > Surely there must be an open source impl of an ODBC interface on a CSV > file? > > Although I’m not sure of the desire to avoid MySQL.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad 6 API

2020-07-15 Thread Tim Hawkins
Modularization is a key part to large-scale refactoring, if you have system that can't be subdivided then that a good indicator that you have an architectural problem. One of the best refactoring patterns for large systems is the "Strangler fig pattern", where you split out a unit of

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad 6 API

2020-07-13 Thread Tim Hawkins
Would it be possible to consider using swig to create the Python Bindings, so that it will be easy to create bindings for other languages than just Python, Java, Kotlin or Rust would be of interest to me. On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 1:06 AM Jon Evans wrote: > Hi Conrad, > > We are working towards

Re: [Kicad-developers] New border/title blocks?

2019-12-02 Thread Tim Hawkins
Would this be a suitable starter project? On Tue, Dec 3, 2019, 9:19 AM Evan Shultz, wrote: > Mark, > > I agree that the dialog could be improved. And this entire part of KiCad, > in fact. But it's also a relatively minor part of KiCad and there are > likely more exciting areas in active

Re: [Kicad-developers] STEP and v6 roadmap

2019-11-30 Thread Tim Hawkins
, Dec 1, 2019, 12:10 PM Seth Hillbrand, wrote: > On 2019-11-30 18:48, Tim Hawkins wrote: > > Have a look at "assimp", http://www.assimp.org/ it does STEP too, and a > whole bunch of 3d model formats both in and out, so it be used to extend > the range of formats that

Re: [Kicad-developers] STEP and v6 roadmap

2019-11-30 Thread Tim Hawkins
Have a look at "assimp", http://www.assimp.org/ it does STEP too, and a whole bunch of 3d model formats both in and out, so it be used to extend the range of formats that 3d models can be accepted in or exported. On Sun, Dec 1, 2019, 8:33 AM Seth Hillbrand, wrote: > Hi Cirilo- > >

Re: [Kicad-developers] 5.1.5 released.

2019-11-29 Thread Tim Hawkins
For those on fedora, i just got 5.1.5 through dnf update On Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 7:47 AM Wayne Stambaugh, wrote: > KiCad 5.1.5 has officially been released[1]. Thank you to everyone who > contributed your time and talent to make this release possible. > > Cheers, > > Wayne > > [1]:

Re: [Kicad-developers] 5.1.5 released.

2019-11-27 Thread Tim Hawkins
Is there a roadmap and timeline for 6.0 publicaly available? On Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 9:30 AM Steven A. Falco, wrote: > Perfect timing. The Fedora 30 and 31 builds of 5.1.5 just made it into > the downstream stable repository. It will take some hours to sync out to > all the mirrors, but should

Re: [Kicad-developers] Benchmarking kicad compilation on CPUs released 6 years apart

2019-10-29 Thread Tim Hawkins
I would have thought that any discussion of performance would have to take the speed of the diskio into account executing: (if you get command not found then install the sysstat package) $iostat -h -x -d 2 whilst compiling would show the diskio utilization factor (last column), if it is pegged

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Symbols and Pin mapping in v6 - Proposal

2019-09-15 Thread Tim Hawkins
What about shunting the problem aside and have the ability to load a fixed format csv file with the details of the pin map. The file could then be bundled with the project. Ie define a dynamic component, that has a physical form, but its schematic forms are dynamic, and depend on the contents of