Release notes for the gEDA/gaf 1.5.0.20080706 stable snapshot

This is the start of the next development cycle of gEDA/gaf. Major highlights of this snapshot include:

• Magnetic net mode in gschem. Magnetic mode lets you draw nets and automatically connect to valid end points (such as pins and other nets). Many thanks to Werner Hoch for getting this integrated.
• Gnetlist backend regression test improvements
• Various gsymcheck checking improvements
• Gschem/libgeda language translation updates
• Lots code cleanup and improvements
• The usual slew of bug fixes
NOTE: This is an unstable snapshot and should NOT be packaged up by distribution package maintainers.

Changes

Changes in this release only (since v1.4.0):


Ales Hvezda (12):
• Updated version to 1.5.0 to mark the start of the next development cycle
• Added sleep to throttle the fetching of the wiki
• Bumped versions to 1.5.0/20080706/34:0:0 for the next development release
• Fixed up all icon-theme-installer files to work with non-bash
• Fixed common gnetlist regression tests to pass
• Oops needed to remove outputs/spice from configure.ac as well
• Removed some m4 files which no longer exist
• Added file which was being "recommended" by running make distdir
• Updated the shipped documentation from the online wiki
• Ran make update-po in all po directories (in prep for a new release)
• Updated all ChangeLogs by running ./update-changelogs.sh 1.0-20070526..master
• Updated versions in the important man pages
Bert Timmerman (1):
• Applied Dutch libgeda translation patches from the mailing list
Carlos Nieves Onega (3):
• Fix documentation about list format.
• Fix missing %s in two strings.
• Changed shell from bash to sh in icon-theme-installer
Dan McMahill (3):
• Add missing libgen.h
• Make the pads netlist backend use CR/LF instead of just LF.
Patrick Bernaud (3):
• Improve the search for already opened page in s_hierarchy_down_schematic_single(). [#1909932]
• Add support for mirror flag when adding embedded components. [#1977778]
• Protects menu items from garbage collector. [#2001303]
Peter Clifton (25):
• Rename translations to drop un-needed ISO-3166 country codes.
• Fix verilog and VHDL netlist backends
• Don't change back to a deleted page after the "Save changes?" dialog.
• gschem: Remove unused GDK global variable "visual"
• gschem: Use argc, rather than relying that char **argv is NULL terminated
• gschem: Fix memory leak in x_window_open_page()
• libgeda: Remove unused function i_vars_setnames
• Tidy up some whitespace in gschem/src/x_event.c
• Calculate bounds of new object when copying an embedded complex.
• Fixup prototype variable names to reflect their usage (screen vs. world)
• Remove bounding box undraws in DRAWTEXT and DRAWCOMP states
• Various whitespace changes and tidy-up split from code-change patches
• Rework o_complex_rubbercomplex(...) to follow usual semantics.
• Add o_move_rubbermove(...) function to keep move logic in o_move.c
• Fix rotate whilst moving to rotate about the current mouse coordinates
• Use o_complex_rubbercomplex_xor() where possible to simplify code.
• Rework o_text_rubberattrib() to follow usual semantics.
• Rework o_buffer_place_rubberplace() to follow usual semantics.
• Add o_copy_rubbercopy() and o_copy_rubbercopy_xor()
• Add a common set of tests to gnetlist evolved from the spice-sdb tests.
• Commit golden files from netlist backends as produced by gEDA 1.2.0
• Remove the spice-sdb backend specific directory of gnetlist tests.
• Update pads backend golden files to match the new \r\n line ends.
• Desired changes in golden file output for spice-sdb
• Tolerated changes in golden files for the vipec netlist backend.
Peter TB Brett (1):
• gnetlist: Remove first-val-or-#f
Werner Hoch (66):
• update the pinnumbers if a slot attribute is deleted
• gsymcheck: check for unknown attributes
• gsymcheck: improved pinnumber check
• gsymcheck: test for number in pinlabel and net attribute
• gsymcheck: modified symbol for improved duplicate net test
• Remove unused drawing code from function o_net_start()
• reuse common code from o_net_eraserubber in o_net_end
• Reuse common code from o_net_eraserubber in o_net_rubbernet
• moved rubbernet drawing code into a extra function
• fix drawing artefact when drawing a net and zoom/pan
• added menu entry and callbacks for magnetic net mode
• core code for magnetic net mode: find connections and draw marker
• connect the magnetic net mode into the net drawing functions
• misc cosmetic corrections for the magnetic net
• added reset function to net drawing code
• o_delete_text(): only call o_attrib_slot_update() for COMPLEX objects.
• Only look for visible objects in magnetic net mode
• use tiles to find connections for magnetic net mode
• libgeda: bugfix for bounding box calculation of mirrored arcs
• added configuration option for magnetic net mode in system-gschemrc
• Merge branch 'magneticnet'
• Enlarge the magnetic net marker with increasing net line width
• Fix drawing artefact in rubbernet drawing code
• show the magnetic net mode in the status bar
• refactoring of the tragesym code to use pin objects and getopt
• tragesym: moved pin comparison, cleanup version is now 0.0.13
• fixed syntax error typo in x_image.c
• fixed net errors in symbols 4164-1.sym and pic12F675-1.sym
• guess net direction when adding nets in gschem
• make the net direction mode configurable (ON/OFF)
• Add CTRL modifier key to mangetic net mode
• switched the net rubber code from screen to world coordinates
• add world coordinates for the rubber lines, use them for net drawing
• removed redundant snap grid code in o_net.c
• switched x events to world coordinates in net drawing code
• switched box rubber drawing to world coordinates
• switched box grips to world coordinates
• switched circle rubber drawing and manipulation to world coords
• switched arc rubber drawing and manipulation to world coords
• switched bus rubber drawing to world coords
• switched line rubber drawing to world coords
• switched grips for line manipulation to world coords
• fixed o_grips_end manipulation for net/line and pin
• removed redundant x event state code from o_grips.c
• switched pin rubber drawing to world coordinates
• switched picture rubber and manipulation to world coords
• fixed rubber color for pin and bus, fixed line erase
• switched move mode to world coordinates
• switched o_draw_bounding and all xor drawing functions to world coords
• switched text code to world coords
• switched selection and selection box to world coords
• switched buffer insertion mode to world coords
• switch complex copy and complex place to world coords
• switched zoom and pan to world coordinates, cleanup
• use world coord for to find objects, cleanup
• balancing snapped and unsnapped x/y coordinates
• set rubber invisible at the end of each object draw action, cleanup
• libgeda: removed fix_x, fix_y functions
• tragesym: fixed version string handling
• tragesym: improved text alignment of top/bottom pin numbers. Version 0.0.14
• gschem: added function to get the pointer from the drawing area
• gschem: use pointer from drawing area for all gschem callbacks
• gschem: use pointer from drawing area in preview and x_attribedit
• libgeda: mingw fix for basename
• libgeda: fix memory leak introduced with the last commit.
• libgeda: fixed EOL handling for mixed windows/linux usage

Notes/Bugs/Errata/Known Issues/Last Minute Issues

• Many thanks to everybody who contributed to this development snapshots.
• Updates to this development snapshot (1.5.x series) will occur if people find issues.
• The next major stable snapshot (1.6.x) will probably happen in at the end of this year.
• Please submit all bugs to the bug tracker.

Download

• http://www.geda.seul.org/devel/v1.5/1.5.0 (USA)
• http://ftp.sunet.se/geda/devel/v1.5/1.5.0 (Europe)

Required Libraries/Programs

Required libraries:
• gtk+ ≥ 2.4.x (tested with 2.8.x).
  NOTE: gtk+ 1.2.x is no longer supported.
• guile ≥ 1.6.x (tested with 1.6.x and 1.8.1).
  NOTE: guile 1.4.x is no longer supported.

Required programs:

• pkg-config ≥ 0.15.0
  NOTE: You MUST install pkg-config regardless of gtk+ version.

Optional libraries:

• LibStroke ≥ 0.5.1

Packages/Binaries/Installers

No packages or installers are available for this release. Please build it from source.

Building/Installing/Running

There are several ways of building gEDA/gaf:

1. Download *all* the above files and the required libraries.
2. Build and install the required and optional libraries.
3. Untar all of the geda tar files in the same directory.
4. Set the prefix= variable in the Makefile
5. Run: make and set the specified variables (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH)
6. Run: make install
   This should complete with NO errors.
7. Run: gschem and select Help/Manual... for all available documentation.

   Before you run gschem, gnetlist, gattrib, or gsymcheck you will need to set those three environment variables, or add them to a shell startup file (.bashrc, or .bash_profile or .profile)

-OR-

1. Download all the above files and the required libraries.
2. Set the specified variables (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH) correctly to the place where you are installing everything.
3. Build and install the required and optional libraries.
4. Untar all of the geda tar files in the same directory.
5. Go into each directory and run:
   ./configure [ with --prefix=$HOME/geda if you wish ]
   make install

   You must build and install the packages in the following order:

   1. libgeda
   2. symbols
   3. gschem
   4. gnetlist
   5. gsymcheck
   6. gattrib
   7. utils
   8. docs
   9. examples