Hi Conrad, On 13.07.20 14:48, Conrad Wood wrote:
> I am keen on generating the outputs for manufacturing and documentation > (e.g. circuit diagram pdfs, rendered 3d-view of pcb) as part of a git > hook. There is still some UI code inside the data representation, so for now scripting can only control a GUI instance. This is kind of annoying for git hooks as you need to set up a fake display server. > I've seen various 'hacks' out there to provide a graphical 'diff'. I > would like to see the API either provide means to do a diff on two > commits of the same repository, graphical or otherwise, in such a way > that it can be integrated into a web-based process. > (with "diff" I mean a method to see where and what changes were made in > two versions by a person not trained to do PCB design. - this is mostly > to review changes and spot unintended modifications) diff/merge is non-trivial, because PCB structures are three-dimensional while files are one-dimensional strings of bytes. Anything that is able to generate meaningful diffs would need to fully understand the files, not just look for similarities. > On bigger/complex boards, there are often 'sections' which are handled > by exports. for example, radio vs memory/cpu vs powersupply. It would > absolutely awesome if we can progress KiCad to support such teams. In > my mind, I am thinking of a KiCad server which serves clients and > sections can be 'locked' and worked on simultaneously. Simultaneously I > mean, with changes being propagated to each KiCad Client in real-time. That is partially a function of diff/merge, and also requires more of a notification system than we currently have (basically, we know to update *the* view when data changes, but we'd need to track multiple views on the data and add a way for data modifications to fail because of conflicts -- plus UI presentation for that. That would require a lot of changes to internals. Simon
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