to make it build with newer boost library.
Changes since 4.0.1:
Do not allow spaces in component name (value field) in
component library editor, in dialogs (Edit field, Create component).
Remove front silkscreen default setting for PTH and NPTH pads.
OSX: back port touchpad support from development branch.
Add support for optional touchpad panning (merge of rev. 6586 from
development branch)
OSX: legacy canvas rendering speed improvements.
PolyLine.cpp: NormalizeAreaOutlines now removes null segments.
Remove support for in processing setting of ld library path.
Eeschema: make footprint and datasheet initially invisible, when creating a
component.
Make color names translatable in color selection dialog.
Mark locked tracks with 'L' letter in status field.
Added 'Reset Grid Origin' hot key (GAL).
Add support for PCB and footprint format versioning
Highlight a net when crossprobing with eeschema and highlight net tool
is enabled.
Make DRC markers not editable with the standard tools (GAL).
Draw arrows for DRC markers (GAL).
and lots of bug fixes.
Major changes:
New graphics rendering backend GAL (OpenGL and Cairo) [currently pcbnew
only and does not yet support all legacy tools]
New s-expression based pcb format (.kicad_pcb)
New footprint library format (.pretty folder with .kicad_mod footprints)
Updated footprint editor (only usable with GAL renderer)
More advanced footprint manager concept called footprint library
table (fp-lib-table)
Ability to download footprints on the fly from git repositories
Official libraries are now stored on github and regularly updated
Awesome/Advanced Push and Shove (PnS) router (only usable with GAL renderer)
Interactive differential trace routing and tuning
Interactive trace length tuning
Much more realistic 3D board rendering
Intelligent library search with preview in Eeschema
Initial Python api for Pcbnew
Notes:
Symbols have changed size, been renamed, etc to follow the new KiCad library
conventions so you need to take care when working with older schematics if
you used the symbols packaged with KiCad.
The new pcb format cannot be loaded in older versions of KiCad.
Sources are available only from bzr (no release) so I made a snapshot
of the source tree and put it on a http server.
This package is based on the package in wip by jonathan.gabris@gmail.com
Kicad is an open source (GPL) software for the creation of electronic schematic
diagrams and printed circuit board artwork.
Designed and written by Jean-Pierre Charras, a researcher at LIS (Laboratoire
des Images et des Signaux) and a teacher in IUT de Saint Martin d'Heres
(France), in the field of electrical engineering and image processing.
Kicad is a set of four softwares and a project manager:
* Eeschema: Schematic entry.
* Pcbnew: Board editor.
* Gerbview: GERBER viewer (photoplotter documents).
* Cvpcb: footprint selector for components used in the circuit design.
* Kicad: project manager.
