Release notes for the gEDA/gaf 20030223 development snapshot
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CHANGES:
General / Summary
* Applied patch by Steve Tell's guile 1.6.x patches. I am now
developing with 1.6.3 exclusively and that means I should
probably deal with the deprecated warnings at some time in
the near future.
* Applied Gabriel Paubert's auto* warning reduction patch to
all ./configure files.
* In preparation to getting the win32 port to work with the new
distribution of mingw, changed all instances of
-fnative-struct to -mms-bitfields.
* Thanks to all who contributed patches/suggestions.
libgeda
* Bumped shared library version number to 18.
* Applied Egil's patch to fix support for Norwegian/Danish/German
characters.
* Added code to take advantage of the libgdgeda 2.0.9's line
thickness control. PNG output now has some of the objects
appearing to have the right thickness. You will need libgdgeda
2.0.9 to get this to work right. Please upgrade. libgdgeda 1.8
should still work, but I recommend upgrading and let me know
if you run into any trouble.
gschem
* Added Russian translation by Andy Shevchenko.
* Applied a patch by Alexandre P. Nunes to fix the gtk_set_locale.
Hopefully nobody should see commas in their postscript output
anymore.
* Changed how the "move operation" visually looks. Now when
you perform a move of some object (line, net, component,
etc...), the original object is erase and all you see is the
outline of the object being moved. This looks a whole lot
better and it is easy to tell if you are doing a move vs a copy
(the original is not erased). This was a surprising amount
of work, mainly caused by a whole bunch of bad assumptions on
my part.
* Changed most menu items to be "greyed out" if nothing is selected.
This is the another small step in getting the UI to be a little
bit more "user friendly". Lots of work todo in the UI department.
* Fixed a bug where if a user executed File/Save All then then
some schematics might not be saved, yet gschem exited.
* Applied the patch by Patrick Bernaud to fix bug #45, which was
arcs are sometimes not drawn on the grid, even though the snap
is on.
* Chris Ellec changed "Find Specific Text" to be a little bit more
liberal in finding text.
* Added 3200x1600 as a choice to the File/Image Write... dialog.
Suggestion by Karel Kulhavy.
* Fixed a long standing bug where if you pressed Page/Next or Prev
at the end or beginning of the loaded schematics, the display
would flicker. Most annoying.
* Further continued to name the existing "limits" (in the printing
dialog box) to "extents".
* Applied Antonio's no margin printing patch.
gnetlist
* Fixed a couple of bugs reported by Koichi Nagashima in
gnet-partslist[1,2,3].scm where a required common file was not
being found.
* Fixed a typo in gnet-vams.scm which prevented the interface with
gschem to work right.
* Updated the annotate.sh and unannotate.sh scripts to handle the
new refdes= attribute properly.
* Fixed my breakage of the PADS backend when I converted to the
footprint= attribute (a while ago).
gsymcheck
* No significant changes, though I have a few suggestions still
pending.
symbols
* Werner Hoch further fixed warnings and errors in the 74 and
4000 symbols libraries. This work is greatly appreciated!
* Hopefully fixed the problems people have been having with
building the sample documentation contained in the symbol
library. Added nc.pdf, nc.ps, and nc.pic to the source
tarballs.
* Added all the improved/fixed Norwegian/Danish/German font
symbols by Egil.
* Added a whole slew of new symbols contributed via the upload
mechanism. Symbols submitted via the webpage are quite easy
for me to integrate. Also added a new component library:
philips (includes only one symbol, but it's a start...).
* Updated all symbols to version 20030223. This will happen
every release (and it's quite easy using gsymupdate).
utils
* Added filetype:pdf to gschemdoc when searching for online
data sheets. This does help in getting closer to the right
data sheet from google.
* Added -lm to the olib LDFLAGS. There were some build problems
because of this in the last release.
* Chris Ellec updated gmk_sym to the latest set of file format
changes (the ones that happened in 20021103).
* Added refdes_renum perl script by Dan McMahill. This is a
useful script to go through and renumbers all reference
designators on a single or multiple schematic sheets.
docs
* Hopefully fixed the $DESTDIR problem from the last release.
* All docs contained in the geda-doc package are installed into
${prefix}/share/doc/geda-doc/... Also changed all the mkdirs
into installs. Let me know if these changes still is not
correct.
* Converted the fileformats doc into latex so now this doc is
available in html, ps, pdf, and dvi.
* Lots of updates to the docs, including Egil's footprint patches.
* Master attribute document now includes the author=, email= and
comment= attributes.
For more a detailed ChangeLog please look in the appropriate source
directories.
BUGS/ERRATA/LAST MINUTE ISSUES
* The following features/bugs did not make it into this release
(but should make it into the next release):
- Packaging up of the examples/ which basically just
contains gTAG. gTAG is a nice example of how hierarchy
is supposed to work in gaf.
- Piotr Miarecki's gManager (geda) and gEDA Suite's setup
were not distributed with this release even though
they are in CVS.
- I have a working version of gaf using gtk+ 2.2.1.
I still need to finish up the changes to the various
./configure scripts so that gaf can use either 1.2.x
and 2.2.x.
- I also have a new better looking and easier to use
print dialog box. A whole slew of bugs prevented me
from checking this code in.
* I've made some changes which should make the win32 port (using
mingw) work again, so I'll spend some time getting that running
again.
DOWNLOAD:
http://www.geda.seul.org/source.html
http://www.geda.coelacanth.com/source.html
http://ieee.ing.uniroma1.it/geda/source.html
http://ftp.sunet.se/geda/source.html
BINARIES:
Unix
None yet
MinGW (Win32)
None yet
SOURCE TARBALLS:
Name Size md5sum
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Makefile 17k c504b4e360fab041c40a78a35903048e
libgeda-20030223.tar.gz 856k aa018d7cfe16bfd8cc535d3f37ed776e
geda-symbols-20030223.tar.gz 502k d8fb0b742bcdcb6d95b3efc64e6f2cf0
geda-gschem-20030223.tar.gz 1.3M f0cb62fb9c9d403fd0c46d2231a109c4
geda-gnetlist-20030223.tar.gz 249k 0d8d72ec7765ee9e6aa9706392812bc9
geda-gsymcheck-20030223.tar.gz 135k 7b585987ef7eedab16a2420b067aa1f6
geda-utils-20030223.tar.gz 193k c886498994d74b549e60b3071f67728c
geda-docs-20030223.tar.gz 589k fb9528b0cde858079dff0fc48fcf1004
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Total ~3.8M
Required libraries (http://www.geda.seul.org/dist):
* glib >= 1.2.3
* gtk+ >= 1.2.3
* guile 1.4 or 1.6.3
Required programs (http://www.geda.seul.org/dist):
* GNU gettext >= 0.11.5 (0.10.35 will NOT work)
Optional libraries (http://www.geda.seul.org/dist):
* LibStroke 0.5.1
* libgdgeda 2.0.9
* zlib 1.1.x
* libpng 1.2.x
BUILDING, INSTALLING, RUNNING:
1) Download all the above files and the required libraries.
2) Build and install the required and optional libraries.
3) Untar all of the geda tar files in the same directory.
4) Set the prefix= variable in the Makefile
5) Run: make and set the specified variables (PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
6) Run: make install
-OR-
1) Download all the above files and the required libraries.
2) Build and install the required and optional libraries.
3) Untar all of the geda tar files in the same directory.
4) Go into each directory and run:
./configure [ with --prefix=$HOME/geda if you wish ]
make install
You must build and install the packages in the following order:
1. libgeda
2. symbols
3. gschem
4. gnetlist
5. gsymcheck
6. utils
7. docs