Release notes for the gEDA/gaf 20040111 snapshot
Changes
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General / Summary
* Lots of changes in most areas. This release contains the largest amount of changes in quite a while.
Expect bugs, crashes, and general instability. If you tell me about them, I might be able to fix them.
* Probably the biggest set of changes were the addition of multi-line text support. The bulk of the work was
done by Carlos. The text add dialog box and the multi attribute add/change dialog box both support the
adding and editing of multi line text items, however, I am going to change these dialog boxes in a
subsequent release to be a little like the old behavior, but still support multi-line text support. Full
multi-line text support requires that you use gtk+ 2.2.x.
* Also part of the above changes was to get rid of some fixed sized buffers within libgeda and gschem.
Hopefully I have hashed out all the bugs in these changes, but I wouldn't be surprised if I missed
something. Please report all crashes. Thanks.
* Changed the file format a little. Changed the way sch/sym files are versioned and added a field to the
text item to support the multi-line text feature addition. I recommend everybody run gsymupdate and
gschupdate (and verify the resulting files!) to get rid of the log warning message. gEDA/gaf will always
write the new file format for all saved schematic/symbols.
* The v flag (the version of the sym/sch file), in the past, was keyed off of a version date, such as
20030901. Starting with 20040111, I am no longer using this date as the version of the sch/sym file, but
rather I added a new field (number) which is the file format version. The new version line looks like:
v 20040111 1
This is nice that I don't have to update all the symbols, schematics, etc... to get rid of a log warning
message. The current version of the file format is 1. All past files are versioned as 0. As an experiment,
I left all the symbol files at v 20031231 1 and nobody should care/notice. I am planning more changes to
the file format in subsequent releases and this version field will make changing it easier.
* The text object has an additional field which is the number of lines (N) the text item contains. The text
item is then followed by N number of lines of text. Example:
T 48400 59900 9 10 1 0 0 0 3
Line1
Line2
Line3
* The component libraries:
vhdl, verilog, new asic, and the new gnetman
are commented OUT in the system-commonrc file. I did this because there are significant symbol name
clashes between these libraries. If you want to use one of these libraries, please place the appropriate
(component-library "...") string in some rc file. This commenting out is temporary, till I fix the
component name clashing bug (jitterbug#9).
* The component-library-search keyword in the system-commonrc file was commented out. If a directory is
specified for the component-library-search keyword, then libgeda/gschem/gnetlist will automatically find
any directories in the specified directory and add them to the component search path. By having this
keyword in place, this would have undone the above commenting out.
If gschem/gnetlist cannot find your custom component libraries after upgrading to 20040111, then either
comment in the component-library-search keyword back into the system-commonrc file or explicitly add the
custom component libraries to an rc file. The latter action is prefered.
This info was added on 02/08/2004.
* Upgraded all packages to use gettext (GNU gettext) 0.12.1. I don't think that anybody who downloads the
source tarballs will need this particular version, but you will certainly need it if you build the CVS
version.
* Partially applied Carlos' UTF-8 patch for gtk+ 2.2.x. I couldn't test the complete patch, so I will keep
working on this. Moving libgeda to use UTF-8 internally is going to be a bit of work, but the sooner it
happens, the better.
* The gEDA Suite setup program has been improved considerably. It now supports the download of the tarballs
automatically using wget. All you need to get from the gEDA website is the toplevel Makefile and type:
make xinstall and the setup program will do the rest. See below in the build section for more information
on using xinstall. Please report any problems with gEDA Suite setup so it can be further improved.
* Much more documentation that gets installed now (almost all of it). I included Bill Wilson's gsch2pcb
tutorial and Russ Dill's tragesym tutorial. I also am installing all READMEs, so please see the
gedadocs.html file for almost all available documentation on gEDA/gaf. You can access this file via
Help/Manual... in gschem (make sure you have a web browser installed).
libgeda
* Shared library version number now at 20.
* In 20030901, libgeda was accidentally being built without optimization. Fixed in this version.
* Applied Carlos Nieves Onega's multi-line text patch. See below in the gschem for more info. This patch
changed and fixed a lot of things in libgeda, so expect some instability.
* Applied a few more patches by Carlos to perfect the multi-line text support in libgeda (mainly dealing
with support for tabs in multi-line text items).
* Added postscript output for mutli-line text items. This support is really new and not 100% perfect. Expect
some problems here, mainly when you start rotating and changing the alignment of many line text items.
Putting tabs into the text strings is not yet supported.
* Fixed a really nasty bug in o_attrib_get_name_value() which was caused by g_strsplit() not behaving the
same between glib 1.2.x and glib 2.2.x. Be careful when using g_strsplit, especially if you use both
versions of glib. Bug caught by Stuart.
gschem
* Added the --with-stroke command line to specify where ./configure can find the libstroke files.
* Changed the behavior of the print dialog box to close when the user presses the Print button.
* Added the ability to generate PNGs from the command line. Look at gschem/scripts/image.scm for the scheme
script. Command line looks like: gschem -o test.png -s image.scm filename.sch
* Added a schem rc keyword: image-size which lets you set the size of the PNG image generated using the
above guile script.
* Applied Carlos Nieves Onega's multi-line text patch. This patch adds multi-line text support to
gschem/libgeda. This patch made some very deep changes to internals which haven't changed in years, so
expect some instability. Multi-line text is properly supported only when using gtk+ 2.2.x. You will be
able to load schematics and edit multi-line text (in a limited fashion) if you use gtk+ 1.2.x
* Part of the above patch was the removal of a bunch of fixed sized buffers. Hopefully Carlos and I have
fixed all issues surrounding these changes, but expect some instability here as well as we work out the
kinks.
* Applied a patch by Carlos to highlight the proper alignment value in the pull down menu in the Edit
Text... dialog box.
* Fixed the visual alignment of the menu items and hotkeys when using gtk+ 2.2.x.
* Improved the appearance of a few of the dialog box, by mainly adding whitespace. A few dialog box got a
few more touch ups, but nothing too drastic.
* Applied a patch by Carlos to add multi-line attribute editing to the multi attribute dialog box. The
changes for this are not complete and will change in the next release.
* Updated the pt_BR.po with Antonio's UTF-8 version.
* Applied Stuart's multi-select open patch. Now you can select multiple schematics to open using the
File/Open... dialog box. Hold down the shift or control key as you click on filenames.
* Part of Carlos' multi-line text patch was to change the quick rendering of text from a line to a
rectangle. Refined and refactored this code a little to properly display attributes.
* Fixed a long standing bug in the File/Open... and File/Close... mechanisms when dealing with multiple
windows. Bug identified by Karel Kulhav.
* Fixed a long standing bug in the preview window (for schematics and components) where there would be
garbage data in the bottom of the window. The bug only manifested itself under very specific conditions
and only when using gtk+ 1.2.x. I'm quite surprised nobody else complained about it (or rather recently).
* Applied a patch by Carlos to support the new Spanish characters.
* Fixed the invalid scrollbars on startup bug.
* Updated the man page a little bit. Added code to the build mechanism to generate an html version of the
man page, which is installed into the documentation directory.
* Bunch of other improvements and bug fixes.
gnetlist
* Upgraded Bill Wilson's gsch2pcb gnetlist backend to the latest (1.4)
* Applied all of Carlos' DRC2 patches.
* Applied all of Stuart's spice-sdb patches. The included spice-sdb backend should be Stuart's absolute
latest version. A bunch of improvements to various parts of gnetlist were included in these patches.
* Applied of Stuart's patch to the partlist backends.
* Updated the man page a little bit. Added code to the build mechanism to generate an html version of the
man page, which is installed into the documentation directory.
* Added the scheme rc keyword: unnamed-netname which lets you control what the unnamed nets should be
called.
* Add the necessary rules to the Makefiles to install all the backend READMEs into the documentation
directory.
* Applied a patch by Christopher K Eveland to fix a condition where gschem2pcb was picking up a pin when it
should not. If somebody could test gschem2pcb on an existing project and make sure it still works as
expect, it would be greatly appreciated.
* Added the Racal Redac format backend by W. Kazubski.
* Added the new RF Cascade and futurenet2 backends by Dan McMahill.
* Applied a bunch of patches by Dan for doing net aliasing/renaming. These patches touched the C files as
well as various backends.
* Applied a few more patches by Dan to fix some m4 quoting issues with the PCB backends.
* Bunch of other minor bug fixes.
gsymcheck
* No significant changes (lots of pending work though).
* Updated the man page a little bit. Added code to the build mechanism to generate an html version of the
man page, which is installed into the documentation directory.
symbols
* Werner Hoch has fixed a whole slew of symbols in various component libraries. Thanks Werner!
* Added a whole bunch of contributed symbols from various people. Thanks.
* Added a bunch of new Spanish characters by Carlos.
* Removed vhdl, verilog, asic, and gnetman from the system-commonrc file.
geda (gManager)
* Piotr Miarecki added a bunch of features and fixed a few bugs in gManager. Give it a try and let him how
gManager works for you. gManager is looking really nice.
* Integrated Antonio's pt_BR translation. This should work now.
* Added a strategic sleep to the mainloop of gManager to reduce the CPU load.
utils
* Updated Bill Wilson's gsch2pcb to version 1.4
* Add the necessary rules to the Makefiles to install all the backend READMEs into the documentation
directory.
* Integrated Stuart's garchive script.
docs
* Applied a whole bunch of patches from Dan McMahill to the symbol creation guide. These patches added/fixed
information related to the footprint= attribute.
* Started using hyperref.sty for all LaTeX generated documentation, which adds hyperlinks to the pdf files.
* Added a bunch of converted txt -> tex documents. The conversions were done by Dan McMahill.
* Added the Dan McMahill's documentation for the RF Cascade gnetlist backend.
* Rewrote the toplevel gedadocs.html index file to link all the new documentation, readmes, man pages, and
tutorials. The gedadocs.html now file contains almost all existing documentation on gEDA/gaf that I'm
aware of.
* Added a couple of tutorials that people have written. Namely Bill Wilson's gsch2pcb and Russ Dill's
tragesym tutorials. Both of these tutorials are accessible from the gedadocs.html file.
* Explicitly stated in the file formats document that all the file formats associated with gEDA/gaf are
covered by the GPL version 2.0.
* Lots of improvements and fixes to various docs.
examples
* No significant changes.
For more a detailed changes, please look in the appropriate ChangeLogs in the source tarballs.
Release notes for the gEDA/gaf 20030901 development snapshot
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CHANGES:
General / Summary
* The biggest change in this release is the addition of gtk+ 2.2.x
support. Now you can build gEDA/gaf with either gtk+ 1.2.x or
gtk+ 2.2.x. Some programs like setup and geda still require
gtk+ 1.2.x, but that will be fixed in a future release.
The original gtk+ 2.2.x patch was by Ye Ma (Thanks!).
* Added --with-gtk12 commandline flag to all ./configure scripts
to force the use of gtk+ 1.2.x. Just add this to the opt=
variable in the toplevel Makefile to force all of gEDA/gaf to
use gtk+ 1.2.x instead of gtk+ 2.2.x. The default used gtk+
library if both 1.2.x and 2.2.x are installed is gtk+ 2.2.x.
* In order support above, pkg-config is now REQUIRED to successfully
./configure the packages. pkg-config is also required if you
are building/linking against gtk+ 1.2.x. You can get pkg-config
from either:
[1]http://www.geda.seul.org/dist
or [2]http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
* If you do not keep all of your packages installed in one
place or if it is not in a standard location (like
/usr/lib/pkgconfig), then you must tell pkg-config where
to look by using the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.
I keep all of my *.pc files in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig,
so my PKG_CONFIG_PATH is set like this:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
* Rewrote and simplified all the ./configure.ac files. Here are
the versions of the auto* tools I use:
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.54
automake (GNU automake) 1.7.1
ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.4.2
aclocal (GNU automake) 1.7.1
gettext (GNU gettext) 0.11.5
If you use any other versions, good luck. :-)
libgeda
* Shared library version number now at 19.
* Removed libgeda-config, replaced with libgeda.pc (pkg-config file).
In order for gschem and the other libgeda programs to find this
file during the ./configure stage, you must set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
environment variable to something like this:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/geda/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
The settings for this variable is printed when you type 'make'
in the upper most directory (toplevel) where you untarred all
the source tarballs.
* libgdgeda 2.0.15 is now required to build libgeda.
* No significant code changes.
gschem
* Applied Carlos Nieves Onega's multi attribute patch. With this
patch, the multi attribute add/edit dialog box behaves a lot
more intelligently when adding or changing attributes.
* Bunch of work to support both gtk+ 1.2.x and 2.2.x.
* Rewrote the exit dialog box to look better under both 1.2.x
and 2.2.x. Quite a few of the dialog box look bad under
1.2.x, but look absolutely dreadful under 2.2.x, so they
will be recreated (and hopefully improved in the process)
in future releases.
gnetlist
* Applied Carlos Nieves Onega's commandline (-l filename) load
scheme patch. The scheme code is loaded and executed from the
specified file before the backend is loaded.
* Added the -m commandline flag which allows scheme code to be
loaded from a file after the backend is loaded but before it is
executed.
* Integrated Carlos Nieves Onega's DRC2 backend.
* Applied Carlos Nieves Onega's warning cleanup patch.
* The required work to get gnetlist to work with both gtk+ 1.2.x and
2.2.x.
* Added Bill Wilson's gnet-gsch2pcb backend.
* Applied Stuart Brorson's latest changes to the spice-sdb
netlister. His changes included the -s command line flag
(sort output netlist) and the gnetlist:get-calling-flags as
well as improvements to the spice-sdb backend itself.
gsymcheck
* No significant changes other than the gtk+ 2.2.x support changes.
symbols
* Werner Hoch updated a bunch of symbols in various directories
including memory and 74.
* Removed gesym-config. The new ./configure.ac files do not use
this file anymore.
* Added a bunch of contributed symbols (not all though, some are
still pending for various reasons).
* The author= and email= attribute on five symbols have been
merged into one (author=).
geda (gManager)
* No changes
setup
* No changes
utils
* Finally integrated Werner Hoch's tragesym 0.0.5 into the
utils package. tragesym is a symbol creator for gEDA/gaf written
in python.
* Applied patch by Holger Dietze to update gmk_sym to be current.
* Integrated Bill Wilson's gsch2pcb package.
gsch2pcb is conceptually based on the gschem2pcb shell script
distributed with gnetlist, but additionally handles multiple
schematics, handles element file footprints, and removes pc
board elements corresponding to components deleted from the
schematics. It also forward annotates component value changes
* The necessary changes to support gtk+ 2.2.x.
* Integrated pads backannotation script by Dan McMahill.
A perl program which implements backannotation from Pads
PowerPCB board layouts to gschem schematics.
docs
* Documented the merge of author= and email= (suggestion by
Werner Hoch)
* Updated spice-sdb document with a the latest version from
Stuart Brorson.
* Added Dan McMahill's documentation for the pads_backannotate
script.
examples
* No changes.
For more a detailed ChangeLog please look in the appropriate source
directories.
for a possessive (like her, his, whose, their, and its).
Note that I didn't check for proper use of "its" (when it should
be "it is" or "it has" instead).
I also saw over 15 other grammar or punctuation problems, but not
fixed in this commit.
Release notes for the gEDA/gaf 20030525 development snapshot
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CHANGES:
General / Summary
* This release is mainly a packaging release. Several
contributed pieces were integrated into the gEDA/gaf
release framework including:
- Piotr Miarecki's geda (gManager)
- Piotr's gEDA Suite setup.
- geda-examples which is a tarball of various
examples of gEDA/gaf in action.
* Two new backends were also incorporated (switcap and spice-sdb)
* Improved the toplevel Makefile a little bit. Now if you are
building from a CVS checkout, you can: 1) set the PATH and
LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables (as usual) and 2) type: make install
and the Makefile will take care of running auto* as required.
libgeda
* Shared library version number still at 18 (unchanged).
* No changes for libgeda.
gschem
* Applied patch by Mario Klebsch for bug #43: "If gschemdoc is
not install, gschem crashes".
* Fixed a crash when you press the q key or any other "no-action"
key. This was changed behavior when using guile 1.6.3.
* Added "reset-component-library" and "reset-source-library" rc
keywords. Now from either ~/.gEDA/gschemrc (or gnetlistrc)
or a local gschemrc (or gnetlistrc) file, you can empty out
all the default libraries and set your own.
* Fixed the x_multimulti.nw build problem that some people ran into.
* Updated the Brazilian translation (new file supplied by Antonio).
gnetlist
* Applied a patch by Dan McMahill to get the PCBboard backend working
with guile 1.6.3
* Integrated Stuart Brorson's advanced spice backend (spice-sdb).
Please see the howto in the docs directory (docs/spice-sdb/)
for more info on this backend. The only changes I made to
Stuart's original code was to lowercase the name of the backend
(from spice-SDB to spice-sdb). Also check out his spice website
at: [1]http.
* Integrated Dan McMahill's switchcap backend. Please see the
gnetlist/docs/README.switcap for more info. Also see the
documentation in the docs package (docs/switcap) for even more
info.
* Applied a patch from Dan to the gnetlist.1 manpage.
gsymcheck
* No changes for gsymcheck.
symbols
* Werner Hoch updated a bunch of symbols in the max symbol library
along with adding a few new symbols. Thanks!
* Integrated a few new symbols for Stuart's spice backend.
* Integrated a few new symbols for Dan's switcap backend.
* Fixed 93Cx6-1.sym to include power information (patch by
Holger Dietze). (Bug#65)
* Applied Wojciech Kazubski's --with-docdir patch. Now you can
specify where the documentation is installed using --with-docdir
at the ./configure stage.
* Fixed 74/7408-2.sym and 74/7409-2.sym, these symbols were swapped.
Pointed out by Mario Klebsch.
* Integrated a bunch of symbols from various people (thanks)
who used the website upload mechanism. Btw, the website symbol
upload is so much easier for me, so please continue using it.
I think I have a few symbols I still need to finish integrating.
geda (gManager)
* From the README:
"gEDA Suite Project Manager is a start point for
everything what you may want to do. It is used to
organize your files and easy running tools. It
simplifies your job."
Even though it is called gManager or Project Manager, the
built executable is called "geda". Please play with it and
let Piotr know of any suggestions or bugs.
* This is the first release of this program inside the gEDA/gaf
framework.
* Integrated this program into the toplevel Makefile (so that it gets
built when you type make install etc...)
* If you build using the toplevel Makefile from now on, you must
have geda in the current directory.
setup
* This is Piotr's gEDA Suite Setup program.
* This is the first release of this program inside of the gEDA/gaf
framework. Please send all bug reports to Piotr.
* Here's how you use it:
1) Download all the gaf files and the required libraries
and put them all into one directory.
2) Download guile-1.4.1.tar.gz and put it also into the
above directory.
3) Type: make xinstall
4) Follow the GUI.
Setup will build and install all of gEDA/gaf. Eventually this
will be extended to build/install the rest of gEDA and gEDA
related programs. Please let Piotr know of any suggestions or
bugs.
Make sure you have guile-1.4.1.tar.gz in the current directory
along with all the gaf tarballs.
* If you build using the toplevel Makefile from now on, you must
have setup in the current directory.
utils
* Applied a patch by Charles Lepple to fix a build problem on OSX.
* Applied Wojciech Kazubski's --with-docdir patch here as well.
docs
* Integrated documentation for Dan's and Stuart's new backends.
* Applied Wojciech Kazubski's --with-docdir patch here as well.
examples
* This is the first release of the example package inside of
the gEDA/gaf framework.
* This package includes:
- Stefan's gTAG : An example of hierarchical schematics using gaf.
- Terry Porter's lightning_detector: An example of how to use
gEDA/gaf with PCB.
- Stuart Brorson's TwoStageAmp and RF_Amp : Examples of how
to use spice-sdb for single page and hierarchical SPICE
simulation using gEDA/gaf.
If anybody else has some projects they would be willing to allow
me to distribute, please let me know! I'm always looking for
examples of gEDA/gaf in real use.
* The examples are not installed, but the toplevel Makefile expects
the tarball to be untarred in the current directory.
For more a detailed ChangeLog please look in the appropriate source
directories.
Quick summary of changes:
- works with guile-1.6.3 now
- Norwegian/Danish/German character fixes
- PNG output now has some of the objects appearing to have the right thickness.
- added Russian translation
- bug fix in postscript output
- non-applicable menu choices are now greyed out
- fixed PADS netlist output bug
- added several components to library
- added multisheet refdes renumber utility
- several other bug fixes.
This represents many many improvements and bug fixes. A few items to
note are that the attributes used by the symbol library have been
greately cleaned up and unified. You may want to run gsymupdate and gschemupdate
if migrating from older versions of the tools.
all dependencies on packages depending on "png" which contain shared
libraries, all for the (imminent) update to the "png" package.
[List courtesy of John Darrow, courtesy of "bulk-build".]
Add a new USE_LIBTOOL definition that uses the libtool package instead of
pkglibtool which is now considered outdated.
USE_PKGLIBTOOL is available for backwards compatibility with old packages
but is deprecated for new packages.
Changes include:
* New dialog boxes by Matt Ettus:
- A much improved attribute edit dialog box
- A multiple attribute edit dialog box
* Improved Hierarchy Support:
- Hierarchy/Down Schematic
- Hierarchy/Down Symbol
- Hierarchy/Up
* Text alignment.
* Attributes are now required to have no spaces besides
the equals sign on each side. This shouldn't cause
any problems for anybody.
* Bunch of updates to the various gnetlist backends
(basically all submitted changes have been integrated).
Integration of JM Routoure's PCB backend work (Thanks!).
Bug fixes and improvements by Matt Ettus, Stefan
Petersen and Bas Gieltjes.
* Added a bunch of contributed symbols. Thanks to
all that have contributed! There are now 566 symbols
in the library.
* Documentation. There are the beginnings of docs now.
Here's the current list:
attributes.txt -- Master attribute list
fileformats.html -- gEDA file formats
gschem.txt -- The start of a serious user's
guide keymapping.html -- Stefan's keymapping
document netattrib.txt -- A HOWTO on the net=
attribute symbols.html -- The ever useful symbol
creation guide
* Bug fixes and improvements to some of the utils.
* Lots and lots of bug fixes (and bug introductions).
