Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Long pin numbers/pad names support

2017-08-13 Thread Maciej Suminski
Hi Wayne, On 08/13/2017 05:10 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 8/12/2017 4:15 PM, Maciej Suminski wrote: >> Hi, >> >> TL;DR: I seek your input regarding support for long pin numbers and pad >> names. Perhaps it might not be perceived as a frequently used feature, >> but the four characters restrict

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Long pin numbers/pad names support

2017-08-13 Thread Maciej Suminski
Hi Jean-Pierre, On 08/13/2017 02:01 PM, jp charras wrote: [snip] > > This was made to speed up netlist and connection calculations in the early > time of Pcbnew. > (There was no support of wxString and std::string, therefore comparing 2 > strings was not as easy and > not as fast as comparing 2

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Add remote lib retrieval to SCH_LEGACY_PLUGIN_CACHE

2017-08-13 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
I think you misunderstood what I was implying. You should not be looking for a different symbol library header. This is a change that I would reject since you are effectively changing the library file format. What I suggested was that you create new plugin that reads from a remote url similar to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release 4.0.7 status.

2017-08-13 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 8/13/2017 11:23 AM, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > >> I've had my msys2 pacman configured to ignore updating boost and> installed >> boost 1.60 so I can continue building stable KiCad > releases.> I'm hoping this will be the last stable 4 release but that > was my hope> with 4.0.6. How much wor

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Add remote lib retrieval to SCH_LEGACY_PLUGIN_CACHE

2017-08-13 Thread Simon Wells
sorry i mean setting it to 0 On 14 August 2017 at 08:39, Simon Wells wrote: > setting CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST breaks newer ssl on macOS so likely > better to not just disable that > > On 14 August 2017 at 07:26, Badr Hack&Invent wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Here in the attachment the patch that add the re

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Add remote lib retrieval to SCH_LEGACY_PLUGIN_CACHE

2017-08-13 Thread Simon Wells
setting CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST breaks newer ssl on macOS so likely better to not just disable that On 14 August 2017 at 07:26, Badr Hack&Invent wrote: > Hi, > > Here in the attachment the patch that add the remote lib retrieval. > > Badr > Le 2017-08-13 17:29, Badr Hack&Invent a écrit : >> >> Hi,

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Add remote lib retrieval to SCH_LEGACY_PLUGIN_CACHE

2017-08-13 Thread
Hi, Here in the attachment the patch that add the remote lib retrieval. Badr Le 2017-08-13 17:29, Badr Hack&Invent a écrit : Hi, Those couple of days I was checking how to update EESCHEMA to add remote libraries retrieval function. Since am familiar with legacy format, I updated the plugin: S

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release 4.0.7 status.

2017-08-13 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, > I've had my msys2 pacman configured to ignore updating boost and> installed > boost 1.60 so I can continue building stable KiCad releases.> I'm hoping this will be the last stable 4 release but that was my hope> with 4.0.6. How much work is it to do something similar with the msys2> packag

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Long pin numbers/pad names support

2017-08-13 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 8/12/2017 4:15 PM, Maciej Suminski wrote: > Hi, > > TL;DR: I seek your input regarding support for long pin numbers and pad > names. Perhaps it might not be perceived as a frequently used feature, > but the four characters restriction for names is an obstacle for import > plugins. I am fine wi

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Long pin numbers/pad names support

2017-08-13 Thread jp charras
Le 12/08/2017 à 22:15, Maciej Suminski a écrit : > Hi, > > TL;DR: I seek your input regarding support for long pin numbers and pad > names. Perhaps it might not be perceived as a frequently used feature, > but the four characters restriction for names is an obstacle for import > plugins. > > As I