Re: [Kicad-developers] Using Master branch / Nightly builds for work on new projects - Is it safe?

2020-01-23 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Hi Mario, Once the new schematic and symbol library file format changes are implemented, going back to the 5.1 stable branch will not be possible. Initially there will be a short period where both file formats will be supported but that will be primarily for round robin testing to verify all curre

Re: [Kicad-developers] Using Master branch / Nightly builds for work on new projects - Is it safe?

2020-01-23 Thread Mário Luzeiro
Hi Wayne, Thanks for the reply. That is fine for me, but my question is just on using the Master branch onwards. So if I only use Master branch, is the save data expected to be valid (during the development, using the Master branch) or corruption is expected due the development progress (eg: bu

Re: [Kicad-developers] Using Master branch / Nightly builds for work on new projects - Is it safe?

2020-01-23 Thread Jon Evans
I think the following scenarios are entirely possible if you use the Master branch from ~now until it reaches feature completeness for V6 release: 1) Files may be corrupted permanently (so you would need to restore them from a backup or earlier version if you use a version control system) 2) File

Re: [Kicad-developers] kicad github wiki

2020-01-23 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Hi Felix, In the future please ask before editing wiki pages so others can comment on changes before they are made. I'm not sure why there are no restrictions on editing them but there probably should be. I'm fine with removing the bzr repository since that information was incorrect. As for the

Re: [Kicad-developers] auto conversion of sch file not working

2020-01-23 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 1/21/20 9:59 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > There should be an entry > > [eeschema/libraries] > LibNameN=mylib Wayne, You da man, still. Rene, Thanks for extending a helping hand. --- I loaded the schematic OK now. I note that an improvement is possible. After clicking "Remap

Re: [Kicad-developers] auto conversion of sch file not working

2020-01-23 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
The other confusing aspect of this is that my old schematic did list the dependent libraries. So why the *.pro file was key to which libraries were being used is perhaps a legacy curiosity. EESchema Schematic File Version 2 LIBS:mylib LIBS:ttl_ieee LIBS:power LIBS:device LIBS:conn LIBS:linear L

Re: [Kicad-developers] kicad github wiki

2020-01-23 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 1/23/20 9:15 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > The only other page is "Modular KiCad with Alternate Top Level > Launchers". I'm not sure, but you might want to migrate this document > to gitlab. Two of the 3 launchers have been implemented. The one not implemented is a python project manager. What

Re: [Kicad-developers] auto conversion of sch file not working

2020-01-23 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 1/23/20 11:20 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > On 1/21/20 9:59 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> There should be an entry >> >> [eeschema/libraries] >> LibNameN=mylib > > > Wayne, > > You da man, > still. I'm glad this resolved your issue. > > Rene, > > Thanks for extending a helping hand. > > -