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.
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).
