Re: [Kicad-developers] Stability drive? [was Re: Version 6 release schedule]

2021-11-08 Thread Jon Evans
To give another example: the wxWidgets team knows that better HiDPI support is needed, and has been working on it. I don't have access to a system where I would prefer to run at a scaling factor other than 1, so I'm not sure what issues you see. If you report them, we can determine: - is the is

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stability drive? [was Re: Version 6 release schedule]

2021-11-08 Thread Jon Evans
I certainly agree with a stability drive, I would just caution to not assume that the devs see the same issues you do, and therefore are ignoring the stability problems you see. > Finally, I know issues that are GTK or WX based might be hard or even impossible for Kicad to fix, but in the past I h

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stability drive? [was Re: Version 6 release schedule]

2021-11-08 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Jon, I realize there was a lot of content, but I also know that little of it was of very much use, because in most cases the issues seen have not been repeatable. I will see what I can do, though. Mostly, this mail was about making the case for the devs to agree

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stability drive? [was Re: Version 6 release schedule]

2021-11-08 Thread Jon Evans
Hi Ruth, Thanks for the notes. There is a lot of content in your email, and I worry it will get lost if it doesn't get split up into multiple issues on the issue tracker. Some of the issues you mention (GTK warnings, ASan issues related to Python, etc) are known issues and we don't plan to fix t

[Kicad-developers] Stability drive? [was Re: Version 6 release schedule]

2021-11-08 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
From my recent experience with self-built flatpak versions of KiCad 5.99 (head), I love the recent changes in the program. I also feel there is an amount of work still needed to improve stability. I would suggest people use the program from a debug build with addres

Re: [Kicad-developers] Version 6 release schedule

2021-11-08 Thread Jon Evans
Hi Jan and José, Unfortunately I don't have a status update for you on the pybind11 API. I'm going to investigate fixing the regressions in the SWIG API so that your plugins can access the board design settings again. Best, Jon On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 6:04 AM Jan Mrázek wrote: > Hello Wayne and

Re: [Kicad-developers] Note to packagers: new data dependency for KiCad PCM

2021-11-08 Thread Jon Evans
Hi Carsten, Sorry I was not clear, yes this is a dependency for the main binaries so it should go in the main package if you have multiple packages. Best, Jon On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 2:53 AM Carsten Schoenert wrote: > Hello Jon, > > Am 08.11.21 um 03:30 schrieb Jon Evans: > > Hi all, > > > > We