This will require some more discussion to see how it may or may not impact the new constraint management system. I'm not opposed to it but it will require a bit of coordination with the devs who are working on the new constraint system.
On 2/21/2019 9:04 PM, hauptmech wrote: > I have a patch for treating track clearance the same as track width. The > user can already specify a track width that is an exception to the > netclass width, and now do the same for clearance. ( > https://youtu.be/05vfAvYwDio ) > > It's bitrotted for a year so I'd want an Ok before putting in the work > to bring it up to date. > > Thomasz raised a concern at the time on a related, smaller, patch: > >> >> - we are planning to overhaul the clearance/design rules system in V6. >> Storing the clearance *DIRECTLY* for each track segment/via will >> conflict with any more sophisticated design rule management system. > > Noting that clearance is only stored on segments that are exceptions to > the netclass (or whatever DRM might be added); I disagree with this. > Happy to discuss it if the concern remains. > > I believe the patch functionality and UI changes would not overlap any > design rules management system as it's focused on manual control of > clearance only. Some (maybe all, I don't recall exactly) of the UI > elements are only present when manual clearances are being used in the > design so there is little impact on users that don't use it. > > -Hauptmech > > > > > On 22/02/2019 9:21 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> Since we are nearing the 5.1.0 release, I want to get an idea of what >> major merges are ready to go once 5.1 is branched. I know Jon's netlist >> code is ready to merge and I'm pretty sure that should be the first big >> merge. Does anyone else have any major changes they want to merge as >> soon as v6 starts? I would like to get an idea of what changes to >> expect so we can avoid any serious merge chaos. Please let me know what >> you have in the queue so I can get an idea of how we should proceed with >> the merges. >> >> TIA, >> >> Wayne >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
