1.5.4 release was something of a toy, QCad was thoroughly reworked for 2.0
and could now be called usable for many practical purposes.
Versions 2.0.4.0 (initially) to 2.0.5.0 have been usable in wip for a bit
more than a year, and so seem ready to import.
"Yes, that should be fine. Please watch the bulk builds for it and
try to fix any problems that might appear." -wiz@
Updates to pkglint now produce some new suggestions, which I will make and
commit after confirming they don't break anything; at least this version I
already know to build successfully for me.
it will live with other "check" targets run after package installation.
Get rid of SHLIB_HANDLING, whose meaning had mutated over the years
from one thing to another. Currently, it is used to basically note
whether the system's "ldd" command can be usefully run on the package's
binaries and libraries. Rename this variable to CHECK_SHLIBS_SUPPORTED
for more clarity.
CHECK_SHLIBS is now a variable set exclusively by the user in /etc/mk.conf
to note whether the check for missing run-time search paths is performed
after a package is installed. It defaults to "no" unless PKG_DEVELOPER
is set.
of PCB. In particular, the core code has been isolated from the GUI code
and there are now both GTK and Motif/Lesstif GUI's available. In addition,
command line exporting to RS-274-X, postscript, encapsulated postscript and
png are directly supported.
In addition, there have been many bug fixes since the last packaged snapshot
release.
PKGLOCALEDIR and which install their locale files directly under
${PREFIX}/${PKGLOCALEDIR} and sort the PLIST file entries. From now
on, pkgsrc/mk/plist/plist-locale.awk will automatically handle
transforming the PLIST to refer to the correct locale directory.
RECOMMENDED is removed. It becomes ABI_DEPENDS.
BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED.foo becomes BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.foo.
BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.foo becomes BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.foo.
BUILDLINK_DEPENDS does not change.
IGNORE_RECOMMENDED (which defaulted to "no") becomes USE_ABI_DEPENDS
which defaults to "yes".
Added to obsolete.mk checking for IGNORE_RECOMMENDED.
I did not manually go through and fix any aesthetic tab/spacing issues.
I have tested the above patch on DragonFly building and packaging
subversion and pkglint and their many dependencies.
I have also tested USE_ABI_DEPENDS=no on my NetBSD workstation (where I
have used IGNORE_RECOMMENDED for a long time). I have been an active user
of IGNORE_RECOMMENDED since it was available.
As suggested, I removed the documentation sentences suggesting bumping for
"security" issues.
As discussed on tech-pkg.
I will commit to revbump, pkglint, pkg_install, createbuildlink separately.
Note that if you use wip, it will fail! I will commit to pkgsrc-wip
later (within day).
========================================================================
Release Notes for PCB snapshot 20060321
========================================================================
- Add internal support for more than 8 layers. By default PCB is still
compiled for 8 copper layers.
- Fixed several minor bugs in the GTK user interface including fixing
scrolling of the log window, fixed up some of the DRC reporting
and mm/mil units.
- Fixed several key bindings.
- Updated refcard.tex to reflect the current set of key bindings.
- Fixed some minor bugs which caused compilation problems on some
systems.
- Converted the QFN footprints to hi-res.
- Added documentation to the manual for the centroid file format and
the algorithm used for finding the centroid and rotation.
- Fixed a bug so that the initial layer named 'component' is actually
on the component side of the board and 'solder' is actually on the
solder side of the board.
- Fixed the pin order in the bourns trim pots (~bourns library)
- Added actions and a script to allow command line printing.
- Added IPC-7351 recommended footprints for 0201, 0402, etc passives.
- Fixed SME5 package.
- Fixed a bug which prevented disabling nets from the ratsnest
- Fixed a bug where clearances could be set 1 below the spacing
- Fixed clearline flag so that arcs also have this property.
- Speed up rtree searches and other autorouter speedups.
- Fixed a bug in computation of the closest polygon point.
- Use rtrees for polygon handling for speed improvements.
- Add a ChangePinName() action.
- Fix a bug which caused duplicate rats names when manually adding
rats lines.
- Added DRC checks for minimum drill diameter and minimum annular ring.
- Add a minimal glossary to the manual
- Fix the author name in the fab drawing
- Cause the crosshair to snap to pad ends instead of center for rat
drawing.
- Add "join" to SetFlag, ClrFlag and ChangeFlag.
- Added inline documentation for the pcb file syntax. The manual now
is up to date and correctly documents the file format. In addition
the inline documentation will make it much easier to maintain the
documentation.
- Remove some broken m4lib footprints
- Put the correct setting for the gschem footprint= attribute in []
in the library window for the m4 libraries.
without underscores (REPLACE.*.old, REPLACE.*.new, and REPLACE_FILES.*).
Also convert REPLACE.*.new= ${SH:Q} back to ${SH}, as it should not be quoted
here, if at all.
Ok with rillig.
makeinfo if no native makeinfo executable exists. Honor TEXINFO_REQD
when determining whether the native makeinfo can be used.
* Remove USE_MAKEINFO and replace it with USE_TOOLS+=makeinfo.
* Get rid of all the "split" argument deduction for makeinfo since
the PLIST module already handles varying numbers of split info files
correctly.
NOTE: Platforms that have "makeinfo" in the base system should check
that the makeinfo entries of pkgsrc/mk/tools.${OPSYS}.mk are
correct.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
major changes:
-supports Python decorator syntax for generators (needs 2.4)
-intbv() doesn't have a default anymore
-many improvements to Verilog conversion
A few new features have been added to allow proper simulation with
newer Xilinx UNISIM models. (They are starting to use Verilog 2001
features.) And also various bug fixes in this release.
-- Primitive and continuous assign delays can now be non-constant. This
needed some new run-time support, so vvp had a slight format change,
and certain new optimizations follow as a result.
-- Bug handling certain constant sub-expressions in concatenation
expressions. Also, allow concat expressions in constant contexts.
-- Support for wide divide expressions.
-- Fixes for stubborn compilers.
-- Fix bugs in padding of signed expressions.
-- More fixes for following the data types of expressions.
- added autobackup (saves to backup files every <n> seconds)
- added "L" drawing support
- added embedded picture support
- added a few new symbols
- added support for spice netlisting of Josephson junction devices
- added pcbpins netlist backend for forward annotating schematic pin
names to PCB layouts.
- several odd bug fixes
- fixes a bug in the cgi frontend for coupled microstrip which caused
lots of bad warning messages.
- replaces the alert dialog box with a log window which prevents multiple
alert windows from appearing.
without affecting packages that are currently using it.
Packages which previously didn't set BUILDLINK_DEPMETHOD to neither "full" nor
"build" now set it to "full", but should be checked whether they really need it
(comment added). Packages which previously set it to "build" now don't set it
anymore.
Ok by jlam, wiz.
Change most pkgs to depend on either
emulators/suse_linux/Makefile.application (normal pkgs) or
Makefile.common (suse91 and suse themselves) to filter out Operating
Systems without Linux ABI support. Use CPU masks to limit the pkg to
supported platforms.
delete the old cad/pcb package. The package which has lived in cad/pcb
for the last few years was horribly out of date and pcb is not making
a distinction right now between -current snapshots and normal releases.
the appropriate tool via USE_TOOLS (usually "gs:run"), and remove
ghostscript.mk. This change removes a rather out-dated file from
pkgsrc and switches packages to use the more compact implementation
of the Ghostcript-handling inside the tools framework.
- Replaced #defined with #none for EXTRACT_ONLY.
- Replaced #defined with yes for NO_BUILD, NO_CONFIGURE, NO_MTREE.
- Removed NO_CHECKSUM completely, as a distinfo file exists, it has the
correct checksums, and I couldn't find even a hint to why NO_CHECKSUM
was set.
Revision history for Dinotrace
The contributors that suggested a given feature are shown in [].
* Dinotrace 9.3a 06/13/2005
*** Fix too small buttons under openmotif.
*** Fix missing keyboard accelerators under openmotif.
* Dinotrace 9.2b 05/03/2005
*** The default extension for Verilog dumps is now .vcd instead of .dmp.
**** Fix traces containing only real numbers. [Vitor Antunes]
**** Fix segfault when doing signal adds. [Guy Hutchinson]
Revision history for Dinotrace
The contributors that suggested a given feature are shown in [].
* Dinotrace 9.3a 06/13/2005
*** Fix too small buttons under openmotif.
*** Fix missing keyboard accelerators under openmotif.
* Dinotrace 9.2b 05/03/2005
*** The default extension for Verilog dumps is now .vcd instead of .dmp.
**** Fix traces containing only real numbers. [Vitor Antunes]
**** Fix segfault when doing signal adds. [Guy Hutchinson]
Changes are:
Ng-spice-rework-17
============
This is a bug fix release. Previous release tarball did not included
an include file necessary for compiling numparam library.
Ng-spice-rework-16
============
Rework-16 comes out after almost one year of CVS development (from
15-fixedRC3). This release improves ngspice in three ways:
- Bug fixing: most of the bugs that affected rework-15 have been fixed,
thus ngspice is more stable, especially the xspice extension, the
subcircuit (X devices) handling and the numparam library.
- New features: netlist syntax has been expandend allowing for end-of-line
comments. A ".global" card has beed added to define global nodes, i.e.
nodes that are not expanded in subcircuits. It is possible to define TC
for resistors on the instance line. The editline library can be used
instead of readline (no more GPL license violation).
- Porting: ngspice now works (with xspice extension) on Windows using
MINGW/MSYS.
It is more consistent with the tex.buildlink3.mk name. Also, if a package
really needs latex, it just has to set TEX_ACCEPTED to latex distributions
altough today, all TEX_ACCEPTED possibilities are latex distributions
This is the Matlab frontend for the Wcalc transmission
line analysis/synthesis calculator. You will need a working
matlab installed on your system. In addition, currently
only a native (non-emulation) matlab is supported.
Wcalc is a transmission line analysis and synthesis tool. Several
structures including air core solenoid inductors, coaxial cable,
single and coupled microstrip, stripline, and metal-insulator-
semiconductor microstrip are included.
Wcalc can analyze the electrical parameters for a given physical
description of the structure or synthesize the required dimensions
to meet certain desired electrical characteristics.
Wcalc provides several different frontends for accessing the numeric
engine. Currently, there is a GTK based standalone graphical
user interface, a common gateway interface (CGI) for web access,
Scilab, Octave, and Matlab interfaces for maximum flexibility within
a scientific programming environment, and a standard input/output
(stdio) interface which allows a simple interface to other 3rd
party tools which can communicate via a pipe.
The different frontends are installed as different packages for
flexibility in deployment.
This is the library for wcalc which contains all of the numerical
backend routines and models.
Wcalc is a tool for the analysis and synthesis of transmission
line structures and related components. Wcalc provides the
ability to analyze the electrical parameters of a particular
structure based on the physical dimensions and material parameters.
The synthesis portion calculates the required physical parameters
to meet desired electrical specifications. Wcalc includes several
models and places an emphasis on accuracy. Several frontends
provide the user with several options for its use.
1) Simplify the way how an emacs version is picked when no emacs
is installed, but a user try to install an Emacs Lisp package.
Just pick up the version set as EMACS_TYPE than searching for
versions already installed etc. If the EMACS_TYPE version is
not supported by the Emacs Lisp Package, just fail. EMACS_TYPE
be default to GNU Emacs 21.
(In other words, users should set EMACS_TYPE as they want.
Otherwise GNU Emacs 21 is used.)
2) All Emacs Lisp Packages *must* prepend EMACS_PKGNAME_PREFIX to
a) the PKGNAME itself, and b) PKGNAME in its dependency lines.
EMACS_PKGNAME_PREFIX is expanded to "xemacs-" when XEmacs is
used. This keeps dependency graph of Emacs-Lisp-packages-
installed-for-XEmacs consistent.
3) Document EMACS_* variables as much as possible.
4) Provide more cookies for PLIST. Maybe utilized later.
Note that the 2) change doesn't affect the default, GNU Emacs 21
behaviour. So no version / revision bumps in this commit.
Major changes since the last snapshot:
- gsch2pcb updated to work with latest pcb
- pcb library directories default to something sane for gsch2pcb
- grenum utility for refdes renumbering added
- add a few new symbols
- added -p option to autoplace the windows. Useful for scripting.
- gattrib can now change attribute visibility
- improvements to the spice-sdb netlist backend
- added support for printing pictures in schematics to postscript
- added german translation
- fixed a segfault in the geda manager.
change is that it compiles with gcc3 now. Also works with the latest
wxGTK (2.6.1). This still has some issues reading gdsii files on alpha
but it seems ok on i386.
file's sole purpose was to provide a dependency on pkg-config and set
some environment variables. Instead, turn pkg-config into a "tool"
in the tools framework, where the pkg-config wrapper automatically
adds PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to the environment before invoking the real
pkg-config.
For all package Makefiles that included pkg-config/buildlink3.mk, remove
that inclusion and replace it with USE_TOOLS+=pkg-config.
========================================================================
Release Notes for PCB snapshot 20050609
========================================================================
- **** The GUI is now based on gtk2 instead of Xaw **** This represents
a fairly major change. You will now need gtk-2.4 or higher installed
along with any of its dependencies to build pcb. On linux
distributions, it is probably the case that you already have this.
For *BSD, Solaris, and others, you may want to use NetBSD's pkgsrc
to help install gtk2 and its dependencies.
- Flags are stored symbolically in the .pcb file. This is the start
of moving to support >8 layers. Please note that >8 layer support
is not yet available in this snapshot.
- Fixes for gcc-4
- As part of the switch to gtk2, the user customizable menu feature has
been temporarily broken. Hopefully this will be fixed by the next
snapshot. In addition, the loading of background images has also been
temporarily broken.
around at either build-time or at run-time is:
USE_TOOLS+= perl # build-time
USE_TOOLS+= perl:run # run-time
Also remove some places where perl5/buildlink3.mk was being included
by a package Makefile, but all that the package wanted was the Perl
executable.
run-time dependency (DEPENDS) on a tool is to append a ":run" modifier
to the tool name, e.g.,
USE_TOOLS+= perl:run
Tools without modifiers or with an explicit ":build" modifier will
cause build dependencies (BUILD_DEPENDS) on those tools to be added.
This makes the notation a bit more compact.
Several changes are involved since they are all interrelated. These
changes affect about 1000 files.
The first major change is rewriting bsd.builtin.mk as well as all of
the builtin.mk files to follow the new example in bsd.builtin.mk.
The loop to include all of the builtin.mk files needed by the package
is moved from bsd.builtin.mk and into bsd.buildlink3.mk. bsd.builtin.mk
is now included by each of the individual builtin.mk files and provides
some common logic for all of the builtin.mk files. Currently, this
includes the computation for whether the native or pkgsrc version of
the package is preferred. This causes USE_BUILTIN.* to be correctly
set when one builtin.mk file includes another.
The second major change is teach the builtin.mk files to consider
files under ${LOCALBASE} to be from pkgsrc-controlled packages. Most
of the builtin.mk files test for the presence of built-in software by
checking for the existence of certain files, e.g. <pthread.h>, and we
now assume that if that file is under ${LOCALBASE}, then it must be
from pkgsrc. This modification is a nod toward LOCALBASE=/usr. The
exceptions to this new check are the X11 distribution packages, which
are handled specially as noted below.
The third major change is providing builtin.mk and version.mk files
for each of the X11 distribution packages in pkgsrc. The builtin.mk
file can detect whether the native X11 distribution is the same as
the one provided by pkgsrc, and the version.mk file computes the
version of the X11 distribution package, whether it's built-in or not.
The fourth major change is that the buildlink3.mk files for X11 packages
that install parts which are part of X11 distribution packages, e.g.
Xpm, Xcursor, etc., now use imake to query the X11 distribution for
whether the software is already provided by the X11 distribution.
This is more accurate than grepping for a symbol name in the imake
config files. Using imake required sprinkling various builtin-imake.mk
helper files into pkgsrc directories. These files are used as input
to imake since imake can't use stdin for that purpose.
The fifth major change is in how packages note that they use X11.
Instead of setting USE_X11, package Makefiles should now include
x11.buildlink3.mk instead. This causes the X11 package buildlink3
and builtin logic to be executed at the correct place for buildlink3.mk
and builtin.mk files that previously set USE_X11, and fixes packages
that relied on buildlink3.mk files to implicitly note that X11 is
needed. Package buildlink3.mk should also include x11.buildlink3.mk
when linking against the package libraries requires also linking
against the X11 libraries. Where it was obvious, redundant inclusions
of x11.buildlink3.mk have been removed.
========================================================================
Release Notes for PCB snapshot 20050315
========================================================================
- Several footprint library fixes including TO-220 parse errors and
incorrect drill holes on several componenets.
- Fixed a crashing bug in the pinout window.
- Allow the FAB author to be set via an Xresource to override what
PCB might have gotten from the gecos information.
- Added table of standard drill sizes to the manual.
- Fixed a crashing bug when trying to use arrow keys to adjust the scale
slider in the print dialog box.
Release notes for the gEDA/gaf 20050313 snapshot
Changes
_________________________________________________________________
general
* Lots and lots and lots of code cleanup, refactoring, and bug
fixing by Patrick Bernaud, Stuart Brorson, Carlos Nieves Onega,
Werner Hoch, and Dan McMahill. This applies to all parts of
gEDA/gaf. The amount of cleanup is quite staggering, so please
look at the various ChangeLogs for more info. Many thanks to all
who lent a hand in this rather difficult task!
libgeda
* Shared library version number now at 23.
* Carlos added proper unicode support to libgeda. Schematic and
symbol files can now have unicode characters in them and as long
as there is a font definition file for them, the characters will
appear in gschem. This was the last piece for making the
transition over to gtk+ 2.2.x. Patrick did some misc cleanup on
the unicode support as well.
* Patrick rewrote the logging mechanism to use GLib's message
logging.
* Carlos added picture support to libgeda. This allows users to put
pictures in various formats into schematics. Pictures are not yet
rendered in postscript or png files. This feature will be
completed in a subsequent release.
* Dan added electric fence support to all configure scripts.
* Dan squashed a whole bunch of gcc warnings as well turning on
-Wall by default to further point out developer laziness. :)
* Patrick rewrote the all guile code to use the 1.6.x scm
interfaces. Dan and Carlos did some minor touch up to catch other
missed deprecated guile interfaces.
* Patrick rewrote the component library code to be sane.
* Stuart added code to read in rc files when a schematic file is
loaded from a foreign directory. This allows users to open up
schematics that have local symbols.
* Stuart add code for of a component placeholder for when a
component cannot find its symbol file. This was extended a little
to draw a graphic informing the user which component is missing
its symbol file.
* Fixed the symversion= code handling to deal with the case when no
other attributes are attached to the component. In the past, this
scenario was simply ignored.
* Added code (temporarily till the bug is fixed) which forces
libgeda to output the vector font when rendering multi-line text
items. This behavior can be controlled via the gschem rc keyword:
output-vector-threshold
gschem
* Werner Hoch completely rewrote the Attributes/Autonumber Text...
dialog box. This new dialog boxes fixes some of the past problems
and hopefully will satisfy more users given that it has far more
capability than the last dialog box.
* Patrick completely rewrote the multi attribute dialog box. This is
a significant change which really improves the usability of this
dialog box. Other than just being a major visible improvement,
there are other features: you right click on the attributes
themselves to Delete or Duplicate them and you can enter
multi-line attributes by hitting Control-Enter instead of enter.
* Bert Timmerman contributed an updated Dutch translation.
* Iznogood contributed the first versions of the French translation.
* Carlos added the first versions of the Spanish translation.
* Carlos went through all the code and gave them all stock pretty
stock icons.
* Patrick completely rewrote the page manager to be sane.
* Stuart improved the right mouse button pop up menu to include a
few more commonly used options.
* Handsom Greg supplied a patch to allow gEDA/gaf to build using
gtk+ 2.6.x.
* Patrick removed any limitations on number of files in the
component library code.
* Part of Stuart's work on reading in rc files in different
directories, system-commonrc was renamed to system-gafrc.
* Patrick rewrote most of the code for the line type and fill type
dialog boxes. They can now be used for multiple objects.
gnetlist
* Carlos modified the bom, bom2, drc2, and redac backends to write
to stdout if a "-" is specified using the -o flag.
* Dan added several guile functions to deal with target netlist
refdes requirements which may be more restrictive than
gschem/gnetlist. Dan also updated his futurenet2, pads, and
switcap backends to use these new functions.
* Carlos improved his drc2 backend to check for duplicated
references as well as properly return exit codes to allow gnetlist
to be used in Makefiles easily.
* Carlos added several functions for use in the DRC backend.
gattrib
* Stuart made a bunch of bug fixes and improvements including:
* Added a pop-up window if a component is found with no symbol file.
* Fixed a bug where only one page of design was searched for missing
attribs.
* Fixed bug where pre-existing attribs were deleted instead of being
replaced.
* Added support for slotted components.
gsymcheck
* Carlos added a check of the pintype attribute value.
* No other significant changes except a bunch of code cleanup and
updating.
symbols
* Carlos and Patrick made the necessary changes support unicode
characters in gEDA/gaf. Wojciech Kazubski also contributed Polish
font definitions.
* Stuart added a bunch of SPICE symbols.
* Werner Hoch did a considerable amount of fixing of various broken
symbols. Many thanks.
geda (gManager)
* Applied segfault patch by Werner Hoch.
* Added updated Italian translation by Marco Colombo.
* No other significant changes except a bunch of code cleanup and
updating.
utils
* Stuart added additional printfs to gsch2pcb during directory
search when using the -v -v flags.
* No other significant changes except a bunch of code cleanup and
updating.
docs
* The gsch2pcb tutorial was updated to the latest version.
* Carlos updated the file format document to describe the new
picture object.
examples
* Stuart updated some of the schematics in the RF_Amp example.
For more a detailed changes, please look in the appropriate ChangeLogs
in the source tarballs.
* src/draw_amacro.c: Forgot to copy gc to local_gc
so drawing inherits gc from image wide setting.
Pointed out by Warren Young.
* src/gerbv.c: malloc strlen+2, not +1
* src/gerb_file.c: malloc len+1, not len
* src/draw.c: When drawing circles I ignored if circle
had inner diameter, which was pointed out by Harry Eaton.
Not anymore... Closes bug #1050340 in this branch.
* src/draw_amacro.c: Forgot to use local_gc when drawing some
of the primitive aperture macros. Closes bug #1051045.
* src/gerbv.c: If you tried to invert color of an unloaded layer
you got a segmentation fault. I think it was discovered by Juergen.
* configure.in, src/Makefile.am: Use libpng-config to find out
parameters to use in CFLAGS and LIBS.
* src/gerbv.c: Made sure that only list of short options is
printed when only short options are compiled in.
* doc/*, example/*: Makefiles.am removed Makefile.in wheh running
distclean. Not good. Spotted by Hamish Moffatt when packaging
for Debian.
* src/draw.c: In gerbers the image can be negative or positive.
Then a part of the image called a layer can be clear or dark.
-"No more weed for you, Mr Gerber".
Richard Lightman found this and submitted both an example and
a patch. Thanks!
* src/draw_amacro.c: When drawing thermals the cross ends in butt
instead of round which gives nicer look when thermal covers an
other via.
* src/gerber.c: Improved comments on what is going and why. Also
improved a little in determining the size of the image. Now it
ignores points with no aperture defined, unless it is a polygon
area.
* src/gerber.c: Removed two potential segfaults when running old
RS-274D format.
* src/gerber.c, src/batch.c, src/gerb_image.[hc]: Actually removed
all traces of MQ_END and MQ_START. That means that empty nodes
with only this information isn't saved, since the only time we need
this information is when parsing arcs. When an arc is parsed
the information wheter that arc is multi or single quadrant is
saved there. Also closes bug #942590.
* src/gerbv.c, src/gerbv_screen.h, src/gerb_image.c, src/gerb_image.h:
Added possibility to dump a parsed image as text to be able to
debug the parser.
* src/draw_amacro.c: By mistake I assumed that all aperture
macros had exposure flags, but that was a mistake. Drew Moore
pointed it out to me. Thanks.
* */.cvsignore, man/gerbv.1.in, src/gerbv.c: Minor updates and
cleanups from Dimitri. --help added for instance.
* Dinotrace 9.2a 12/20/2004
** NEWS file is now renamed Changes.
** Added signal note and cursor note menu items. [Shane Coffman]
** Searching for a non-vector signal will now return a vectored signal.
For example a pattern "Foo" will find "Foo[1:0]." [Shane Coffman]
**** Save cursor notes in Customize save files. [Thomas Dmukauskas]
**** Fix compilation errors on GCC 3.4. [Jaroslaw Gorny]
**** Fix segfault when using grid timerep without grid. [Scott Venier]
* Dinotrace 9.1n 10/22/2004
**** Fix slow file reading with >128 bit __en signals. [Ta-Chung Chang]
**** Fix signed analog display. [Uwe Bonnes]
* Dinotrace 9.1m 04/21/2004
*** Fix duplicate and embeded __en cosmos signals. [Krishna Rangan]
**** Fix buffer overrun bugs. [Samuel Ho]
No changelog, but looking at the source code it seems that
a new tcl command for dealing with diodes has been added and
code to convert spice netnames to uppercase with checks for
name collisions has been added.
ViPEC 3.2.0
-----------
- Migrated to Qt 3. ViPEC is no longer supported on the
Windows platform. Please see the README file for details.
- Added German translation by Jens Flucke.
- Started working on improved tracing for debugging
- Changed calculation of font sizes in output graphs
========================================================================
Release Notes for PCB snapshot 20050127
========================================================================
- Fix drill size for PLCC sockets in ~geda library. Fix drill size for
LED3 and LED5 footprints in ~geda library.
- Move the right-click popup menu to pcb-menu.res.
- Add DisperseElements() action for spreading out elements in an initial
layout.
- Fix fab drawing output for the case where a very small number of
drill sizes are used.
- Various documentation improvements.
- Remove many compiler warnings.
- Added metric output to the cursor display
- Fix <Key>. for toggling 45 degree mode.
- Crosshair snap snaps to center of pads and also to the mark of the
element.
- Protect all strcmp() calls with a check for a NULL pointer. Fixes
various crashes.
- Fixed the mode buttons which were unresponsive in some versions of
the X libraries.
- Element names may be edited over the element.
- Added --enable-efence for ElectricFence debugging. Off by default
- Added --disable-rpath to avoid using rpath for the X libraries.
- Added vendor resource file support. This allows lets you specify
a set of allowed drill sizes and drc rules for a particular vendor.
- Added -action command line option to allow executing an action on
startup.
- Date and time of compilation added to About dialog.
- Fix a bug where the soldermask relief on a new element is 100x smaller
than the default when "convert buffer to element" is used.
- Fix a name_tree corruption bug when changing an element name.
- Don't remove the formatted manual with a 'make clean' since they are
part of the distfile.
- Let automake handle the html and pdf conversion. This ends up using
texi2pdf for the pdf output which seems to do a better job than ps2pdf.
- Sort actions by modifier so that both Ctrl<Key>x and <Key>x work.
- Fix a SelectByName bug.
- Fix non-gcc compilation
- Command history added to :
- Fixed pinout window crash
- Allow Ctrl-drag to copy objects in arrow mode.
- Fixed a polygon clearance bug
- Fix an arc bounding box calculation error.
python*-pth packages into meta-packages which will install the non-pth
packages. Bump PKGREVISIONs on the non-pth versions to propagate the
thread change, but leave the *-pth versions untouched to not affect
existing installations.
Sync all PYTHON_VERSIONS_AFFECTED lines in package Makefiles.
framework. The list of changes include:
* Modify compiler.mk so that "c" is always prepended to USE_LANGUAGES,
so we no longer need to say it in package Makefiles. Packages
should now append to USE_LANGUAGES instead of setting it.
* Create mk/compiler/f2c.mk which implements another pseudo-compiler
"f2c" that may be used with any C compiler backend, e.g.
PKGSRC_COMPILER= f2c ccache gcc
* Teach the various "real" compiler files, e.g., sunpro.mk, mipspro.mk,
etc., to use f2c if the native Fortran compiler isn't present.
Packages that use Fortran should now simply include the line:
USE_LANGUAGES+= fortran
in the package Makefile.
Release notes for the gEDA/gaf 20041228 snapshot
Changes
_________________________________________________________________
libgeda
* Shared library version number now at 22.
* Added a new attribute: symversion= and associated mechanism to
libgeda.
+ The symversion= mechanism allows symbols to be versioned with
a major and minor number. An example of this attribute is
symversion=1.0
+ This symversion= attribute is typically found in symbol files
at first, but it will be promoted if it is found when the
symbol is read in from disk.
+ The symversion= attribute is an auto-prompted attribute,
which if present in a symbol will always be promoted to the
schematic.
+ If the major number of the symversion= attributes (the one in
the symbol and the one in the schematic) does not match, then
a serious warning message is issued.
+ When a user changes a symbol file in a major or incompatible
way (translation, addition/removal of pins/attributes
etc...), the major number of the symversion= attribute value
should be incremented by one.
+ For minor changes, primarily cosmetic changes, only the minor
number of the symversion= attribute value should incremented
by one.
+ If the minor number of the symversision= attributes (the one
in the symbol and the one in the schematic) does not match,
then a minor warning message is issued.
+ The default value is 0.0 even if no symversion= attribute is
present.
* Fixed the randomly colored midpoint postscript bug reported by
Gabriel Paubert. Also removed some redundant code related to
postscript printing.
* Moved a whole bunch of rc routines from gschem/gnetlist/gsymcheck
into libgeda. This makes using the common rc code much easier.
* Added the --with-rcdir ./configure flag to libgeda. This was
required because of the above rc code refactor. You must
./configure libgeda with this flag if you intend to move the rc
files to a different directory. Be sure to put this flag on all
programs (gschem/gnetlist/gsymcheck/gattrib etc...) if you want to
move the rc files.
* Part of the above rc code refactor was to add an additional rc
file: gafrc. The gafrc file is read in last after all other rc
files are read in. Only common rc keywords can be put inside the
gafrc file, including:
+ component-library
+ component-library-search
+ source-library
+ source-library-search
+ world-size
+ reset-component-library
+ reset-source-library
+ default-series-name
+ untitled-name
+ scheme-directory
+ bitmap-directory
+ font-directory
+ bus-ripper-symname
Now you do not have to create a gschemrc, gnetlistrc, gattribrc,
gschlasrc etc... if you are just adding custom component
libraries. Just create a gafrc file and put the library lines in
there.
* Added a bunch of init function to libgeda_init() to make using
libgeda a little easier.
gschem
* Added a dialog box which pops up when a schematic is loaded up
which has components which have changed in a major or minor way
(based on the new symversion= attribute). See above the libgeda
section for a description of the new symversion= attribute and its
usage.
* Hopefully finally fixed the broken postscript problem when the
locale uses commas instead of periods. Original fix by Bill Wilson
and patch by Andreas Fester.
* Fixed a gschem crash when certain components (depending on what
was connected to them) were being updated. I have also started
working on fixing Edit/Component Update... to be more sane (and
not cause duplicated attached attributes). This work is not
complete, and for now, Edit/Component/Update... will still cause
duplicate attributes.
* Fixed some visual garbage/corruption in the preview window in the
file selection and component place dialog boxes.
* Added a new rc keyword "grid-dot-size" which lets you control the
size of the grid dots. Handy if the dots are too small to see.
* Applied the scroll wheel pan patch by Sascha Silbe. The scroll
wheel pans the display vertically and holding down the control key
and moving the wheel the will scroll the display horizontally.
* Added a modal "Are you sure?" dialog box to page revert. This
should prevent accidental page reverts (cause work losses). This
dialog box is only implemented for gtk+ 2.x
* Added an Italian translation by Petrecca Michele.
* Added the comment and symversion attribute to the attribute
pulldown list in the Add/Attribute dialog box.
* Updated gschem with the newly refactored rc code.
gnetlist
* Stuart implemented a whole slew of improvements to the spice-sdb
backend.
* Stuart added several functions to passing the command line to
scheme backends.
* Removed gschem2pcb as an installed program. gsch2pcb is the
preferred tool for going from schematic to PCB.
* Applied a bugfix patch to the cascade backend by Dan McMahill.
* Integrated the initial version of a SystemC backend by Jaume
Masip.
* Integrated a new scheme backend for Eagle PCB. The backend was
written by Braddock Gaskill.
* Updated gnetlist with the newly refactored rc code.
gattrib
* Integrated Stuart Brorson's attribute editor: gattrib into
gEDA/gaf. This is the first gEDA/gaf release that includes
gattrib.
* Here's a description of gattrib:
Gattrib is gEDA's attribute editor. It reads a set of gschem .sch
files (schematic files), and creates a spreadsheet showing
all components in rows, with the associated component
attributes listed in the columns. It allows the user to add,
modify, or delete component attributes outside of gschem, and
then save the .sch files back out. When it is completed, it
will allow the user to edit attributes attached to
components, nets, and pins. (Currently, only component
attribute editing is implemented; pin attributes are
displayed only, and net attributes are TBD.)
gsymcheck
* Integrated a patch by Jim Duchek which adds several more useful
tests to gsymcheck.
* Updated gsymcheck with the newly refactored rc code.
symbols
* Redrew the following symbols and set the symversion= attribute to
1.0:
4000/4002-1.sym 4000/40107-1.sym 4000/4011-1.sym 4000/4012-1.sym
4000/4023-1.sym 4000/4025-1.sym 4000/4030-1.sym
4000/4068-1.sym 4000/4070-1.sym 4000/4072-1.sym
4000/4073-1.sym 4000/4075-1.sym 4000/4078-1.sym
4000/4081-1.sym 4000/4082-1.sym 4000/4085-1.sym:
If you have any of these symbols in any existing schematics, you
should get a warning that major changes have occurred when you run
gschem or gnetlist.
* Added over ~100 user contributed symbols to the various component
libraries. Created 5 new component libraries: minicircuits st apex
allegro irf
* Moved the local component library to the beginning of the search
order.
* Updated Peter Kaiser's asic library with the latest set of symbol.
Added Peter's asic pad symbols into the new asicpads library.
Commented in the asic library now that the symbol names are
unique.
* Werner Hoch has fixed a whole slew of symbols in various component
libraries (74, 4000, and memory). Thanks Werner!
geda (gManager)
* Piotr Miarecki added graphman, a new tool for managing graphs.
* Piotr update gManager to build with gtk+ 2.2.x
* Integrated a French and Italian translation. Not sure if the
translations are work yet.
utils
* Added symbol cleanup (gsymfix.pl) script by Mike Skerritt.
* Updated gschlas with the newly refactored rc code.
docs
* attributes and symbols documents: Added information and details on
the symversion= attribute
* toplevel doc page: Added links to SystemC and Eagle backend
READMEs.
changes:
* VCD output for waveform viewing
- function additions
- needs Python 2.3, 2.4 is OK
* Conversion to Verilog to provide a path to implementation
* Added cosimulation support for the cver Verilog simulator.
- bugfixes
there have been many many bug fixes since the ng-spice-14. Notable
updates include bug fixes in the bjt pole/zero code, updates to the
bsim1,2,3 models, updated hsim model, updates the jfet model and
much code cleanup.
This is a major version bump and represents many many bug fixes and
lots of improvements. The scope is fairly broad and can't really
be summarized. See the ChangeLog in the distfile for a complete
list of changes.
Changes since 0.13:
* Fixed multiline string problems in help.h which prevented
compilation in gcc >3.2
* Moved build environment automake, autoheader, autoconf to a more
modern version (autoconf support is for >2.50).
* Ported transcalc to gtk2.0, which means that the dependency on
gdk-imlib is now gone. gtk2.0 included gdk-imlib natively.
* Corrected some minor bugs related to config file
* Changed speed of light symbol from C to C0
* Modified configure.in to work also with Mingw32 (and hopefully cygwin)
* Added fnmatch.c and fnmatch.h (needed for Win32)
* Added program version number to saved files
* Updated speed of light constant (!) and changed its name from C to C0
to avoid clash with variables in other f iles. Updated vacuum dielectric constant
* Moved examples from src directory to a separate examples dir
* Clean-up most warnings during compilation
* Upon running for first time, $HOME/.transcalc dir will be
created with config file and save file
* Units default values now saved in config file
* Upon exit, last transmission line values remembered in save file
* Made some slight changes in gui setup
* Added coupled microstrip image
* Update manpage
Many many improvements and bug fixes since the last packaged
release. A partial list is:
atlc should no longer fail any test on a multi-processor
system configured with --with-threads. The algorithm used
for both single processor and multiple processor (i.e.
threaded code is the same).
The -t option to atlc, which sets the number of threads
when configured for multiple processors can be set to 0
to use entirely the single-threaded algorithm. If set to
one, it will use the multi-threaded algoritm, but use
only one thread. If set to some other number, it will use
that number of threads and be optimal for the same number
of cpus.
Added some support for gathering hardware data under Linux.
Removed MPI support, as its not working at all.
Changes made to the code to remove the need for a type long long,
which should make the code more portable.
Some changes have been made to the bests so that when
the benchmark runs it should not produce junk for
the hardware information on any system. Previosly
is could create a lot of junk, that was all wrong.
uname is now only called once from try_portable.c
and the splatform specific stuff computed elsewhere
atlc now runs on anything from a toy to a supercomuter! Yes, that is
right. An early version of atlc has been run on a Sony Playstation 2
games console and version 4.4.0 has been tested on the Cray Y-MP
supercomputer!! It has also been run on a very large number of other
UNIX systems, so is hopefully very portable.
An option that was previously reccommended --enable-hardware-info
has been removed. It is now enabled by default, but can be
over-ridden with --disable-hardware-info.
Added a system call to get the number of configured
processors online in Linux. This seems to be undocumented
so it not without its risks, but it seems to work okay on the
limited number of systems tested on.
Someone has done a Windoze port of atlc. Appently it took just 5
minutes, from start to finish. A single bug was found that prevented
atlc compiling, but that was fixed - it needed a left brace removed.
This had never been seen on a UNIX system, since the offending code
was between a couple of #define's.
It has been bought to my attention that bitmaps created with Photoshop
prior to version 7.01 could not be read by atlc. This was not a
fault of Photoshop, but of atlc, so that bug has been fixed.
NEWS for realease 4.6.0 Nobember 2003.
This is a very different from the last release (4.5.1) in
two very important ways.
1) The basic accuracy for single dielectrics has been improved.
Now typical errors are only around 0.1%
2) I have re-enabled the calculation of multiple dielectrics
which were disabled due to accuracy concerns. I'm still not
100% happy with the algorithms, but on tests with a dual
coaxial cable with two dielectrics shows errors of under 2%,
I hope to improve this further at a later date.
This release contains lots of bug fixes and also contains the
initial version of the Covered report viewing GUI (line coverage only). The following is a
description of the changes made since the last development release.
- Ran C linting tool on all Covered source code and updated code based on linting errors/
warnings.
- Modified debug output to show file and line number of code that called the outputting
function (easier to debug problems and useful in error regression testing).
- Started initial error testing in regressions.
- Several bug fixes made to remove segmentation faults and assertion errors in the new
report generation functions.
- Initial version of Covered report viewing GUI added. This version displays line coverage
only at the moment.
- Fixed bug in score command for statement removal (was resulting in memory errors that led
to segmentation faults).
- Fixed bug in report command that output bad verbose information when -c option was used.
- Added new diagnostics to regression testsuite to reproduce situations where original
segmentation faults were found to occur.
- Development documentation updates. No user documentation updates are released at this
time (other than information provided using the -h global option to Covered).
Changes since the last stable release:
- User-specified FSM code coverage. By using command-line options or inline code specified
by the user, FSM code coverage can be extracted from the design. This does not include
the ability to automatically extract FSMs from the design (an ability that will be added
in future stable releases).
- Enhanced performance of the score command. A 3x - 5x speedup in the running time of the
score command on the design should be expected with this release over past stable releases.
- Enhanced readability of coverage reports. The coverage report look has been overhauled to
produce a much more readable/understandable coverage report.
- Several bug-fixes have been made, including coverage number calculation bugs.
- Development and user documentation updates.
- Enhanced regression suite.
Release Notes for Icarus Verilog Snapshot 20041004
Some minor Makefile bugs have been fixed, and source file text
formatting has in some cases been normalized for release. Also,
configure scripts have been factored for a more consistent build.
Fixed continuous assignments to carry strength when needed for correct
behavior. This bug led to subtly incorrect reset behavior, but could
have caused strength modeling errors in a variety of situations.
Fixed some <= vs >= behaviors to be consistent. The results of these
comparisons, when sized values are involved, are more standard now.
Replaced the "hspice" directory with Conrad Ziesler's
"spiceparser". The use of routine AddNTermModule() has
broken the spice input for now, although once fixed, the
results should be much improved.
Also, changed the handling of expression parameters so
that expression parameter results may be numeric, and
evaluated results are saved in the PostScript output as
instance values. When traversing the hierarchy during
redisplay, commands invoking a "selected" element will
pick up the object instance being rendered. The
combination of these changes allows the implementation
of several useful features such as counter-rotation and
displaying the name of an object within the object.
Unfortunately, guile{,14}/buildlink3.mk directly includes it, and I don't
know which dependencies actually need libltdl, so it was a recursive bump.
Hopefully this recursive inclusion can be ripped out of
guile{,14}/buildlink3.mk at some point and bubble down to dependencies that
actually use libltdl, avoiding this headache in the future....
The current release is a considerable improvement over the previous stable
release. It includes 20 months of fixes and language coverage improvements.
For a complete history of changes, see the release notes for individual
snapshots between the 0.7 and 0.8 releases found at
ftp://ftp.icarus.com/pub/eda/verilog/snapshots/pre-0.8
A brief list of highlights:
- Support for advanced standard data types such as real,
- Lots more language support in general,
- Kernel of an extensible, interactive debugger is new,
- More complete support for user supplied system functions and tasks,
including PLI system functions with various return value types,
- Better standards compliance for core system tasks and functions in
general, including some Verilog 2001 file I/O support, and
- Performance improvements in general.
in the process. (More information on tech-pkg.)
Bump PKGREVISION and BUILDLINK_DEPENDS of all packages using libtool and
installing .la files.
Bump PKGREVISION (only) of all packages depending directly on the above
via a buildlink3 include.
gsmc is a GTK application that allow to do all the calculation
usually done on a Smith Chart. It permits to make calculation
for network composed by resistor, capacitor, inductance, and
transmission line (also as stub). Network topology is
limited to series, parallel and as trasmissive
for trasmission line. No series connection are allowed in parallel
branch, neither parallel connection in series branch.
Trasmission line can be placed as quadrupole or as a parallel or
series stub, either opened or shorted at the other end.
Calculation procedure starts with setting the initial impedance to be
matched, next network elements are added and tuned to obtain the
desidered impedance value.
The network so obtained can be saved in spice format for other analysis;
current work can be saved for succesive retrieve.
The initial (start) impedance is thought as "the load" so when
adding a trasmission line placed as a quadrupole rotation is
clockwise, going "toward generator"; generator is placed after the
last network element, as can be seen from spice output.
TNT-MMTL, the Multilayer Multiconductor Transmission Line 2-D and 2.5-D
electromagnetic modeling tool suite, generates transmission parameters
and SPICE models from descriptions of electronics interconnect
dimensions and materials properties.
MMTL programs and supporting libraries and documentation have been
under development at the Mayo Clinic since the mid-1980s. The programs
were developed under government sponsored electronics research
programs in the Special Purpose Processor Development Group
(SPPDG). They have been employed extensively at Mayo and distributed
to some government agencies and research collaborators. At the
beginning of 2004, we decided to release the TNT graphical front-end
and MMTL programs as free software under the GNU General Public
License (GPL). Technically, MMTL programs are in the class of 2-D and
2.5-D "field solvers", which convert dimensions and materials
properties into electronic design parameters. The MMTL suite consists
of several programs, including lossy, loss-free, quasi-static, and
full-wave simulators. Circuit parameters are computed by either the
method of moments (MOM) or finite element methods (FEM). Basic
per-unit-length parameters are generated by the simulator, and can be
converted into HSPICE W-element models. MMTL is similar in many ways
to commercial field solver products which typically cost thousands of
dollars.
All library names listed by *.la files no longer need to be listed
in the PLIST, e.g., instead of:
lib/libfoo.a
lib/libfoo.la
lib/libfoo.so
lib/libfoo.so.0
lib/libfoo.so.0.1
one simply needs:
lib/libfoo.la
and bsd.pkg.mk will automatically ensure that the additional library
names are listed in the installed package +CONTENTS file.
Also make LIBTOOLIZE_PLIST default to "yes".
The big news is that module instance arrays now work. Gate and UDP
instance arrays have worked for a while, but module instance arrays
were more tricky because of the scope arrys they create. The issues
have been dealt with, and module instance arrays are now supported.
An interesting but subtle set of bugs in the evaluation of ternary
expressions has been fixed. The problems expressed themselves when the
condition expression was constant.
Degenerate wait statements now work properly.
The @* syntax apparently missed sensitivities in l-value expressions
of assignment statements. This led to subtle bugs in carefully crafted
bits of code.
Verilog attributes are properly parsed in a few more contexts. Also,
some specify syntax cases have been fixed.
Some minor spelling and documentation errors have been fixed, along
with assorted compiler warnings.
- distfile has moved
- license has changed. Patches are the result of de-fuzzing the
old patches since the new source files have the new (less restrictive)
license.
========================================================================
Release Notes for PCB snapshot 20040903
========================================================================
- enable -Wall when compiling with gcc. Many compiler warnings have
been fixed.
- add a short man page which refers the user to the real documentation
- Added ExecuteFile(file) action which allows the execution of several
actions contained in a text file.
- Added -script <file> flag which specifies a file containing actions
to be executed upon startup.
- Various documentation improvements
- Protect some gcc extensions with tests for gcc. This allows
compilation with the IRIX c compiler.
- Add support for a background image in the drawing area which can
help in importing a layout from a scanned image.
- Updated the ~geda library 150 and 300 mil width SOIC packages
to remove silk on pads and to more closely follow the IPC
recommendations
- Added support for menu accelerators.
- segfault when breaking apart an element with no element selected
bug fixed.
- autorouter improvements
- added more 400mil DIP packages to ~geda library
- fix a trace optimizer bug which produced a segfault
- other various bug fixes
changes include:
Added support for the `default_nettype directine, including the
default net type of "none", which turns off implicit net declarations.
Signed /, % and >>> in nets should now work properly. Also, various
operators of all sorts applied to constants have been improved.
Ranges now work on localparams.
Added the system tasks $unsigned, $is_signed, $mti_random and
$mti-dist_uniform. See the make README.txt for a description of these
system functions. Also, flesh out the standard random number
generators to match the sequences generated by other compilers.
There is now an "sft" file that describes to the compiler the return
value of system functions. This allows user supplied system functions
to have interesting return types. See "SYSTEM FUNCTIO TABLE FILES" in
the iverilog man page. Include a sft file for the system functions,
and move the system functions over to that mechinism.
Fix the behavior of $fgets in tight fitting result buffers.
A variety of compilation environment fixes have been added. These
involve configure scripts and Makefiles.
And of course a variety of other bug fixes, and so on and so forth.
which are the full option names used to set rpath directives for the
linker and the compiler, respectively. In places were we are invoking
the linker, use "${LINKER_RPATH_FLAG} <path>", where the space is
inserted in case the flag is a word, e.g. -rpath. The default values
of *_RPATH_FLAG are set by the compiler/*.mk files, depending on the
compiler that you use. They may be overridden on a ${OPSYS}-specific
basis by setting _OPSYS_LINKER_RPATH_FLAG and _OPSYS_COMPILER_RPATH_FLAG,
respectively. Garbage-collect _OPSYS_RPATH_NAME and _COMPILER_LD_FLAG.
gnetman is a program which currently supports advanced SPICE
netlisting from gschem (part of the gEDA tool suite). The
primary use so far has been for complex IC design. Supported
features include multi-level hierarchy, instance arrays, and
buses. If you're just doing flat designs for PC boards or
smaller SPICE simulations, the usual path is to use the spice-sdb
netlister for gnetlist instead.
The long term goal of gnetman is far greater. Two projects under
consideration include a schematic generator, and a technology
mapping back-end for Icarus Verilog. Basically, gnetman is a
netlist manipulation database well suited for low-level
manipulation of netlists.
library dependencies (caused by the tcl/tk update to 8.4). Use tclConfig.sh
to determine which libraries are really needed. Noted in last kristerw@'s
bulk build.
* Release Notes for Icarus Verilog Snapshot 20040606
Ports of primitives can bind by name as well as by position. Also
support Verilog 2001 style port declarations for primitives.
System function return types can now be specified by system function
table files. System Function Table Files are described in the iverilog
man page. Also include better system function return types in VPI.
Non-blocking assign of real values to real variables now works.
Properly handle nul strings ("") as 8bit values. This is a weirdness
legacy of XL.
Fix some synthesis problems for logical OR and logical AND. Bitwise OR
and AND were fine. These fixes affected simulation as well.
Handle wait statements with all sorts of constant values. These are
sometimes weird, bug legal.
Handle Negative value reals, and a few other bugs related to real
numbers.
Change internal use of identifiers to perm_strings for better
performance.
Functions returning unsupported types now generate error
messages. Previously, they would quietly generate bad
code. Infrastructure is also added to eventually support arbitrary
function return types.
Better compile-time support for Cygwin vs mingw32.
The ipal target is removed from this source. (ipal is now an add-on
package that is compiled seperately.)
========================================================================
Release Notes for PCB snapshot 20040530
========================================================================
This has been an exciting 3 months for PCB. Many improvements have
been made in the program as well as additions and improvements to the
footprint library. Thanks to everyone who has provided feedback,
patches, etc.
----------------------
Additions/Improvements
----------------------
- Expanded DRC checking
- "Realtime" DRC checking
- DRC settings are now stored in the board fle
- Centroid (X-Y) and bill of materials output
- Dynamic menus. Users can now customize the menus via a
site-wide, per-user, or per-project menu resource file.
- Significant improvements to autorouting of congested designs.
- Autorouter can now use power planes.
- Improved appearance in autorouter output.
- Silk on pads/pins is clipped in RS-274-X output
- Ordering is preserved when writing output files so that diff
may be effectively used on pcb files.
- The autoplace feature now actually works
- Added ToggleVisibility action
- Most of the database is now kept in rtrees which avoids linear
searches. This speeds up operation significantly.
- Added SetFlag, ClrFlag, ChangeFlag actions
---------
Bug Fixes
---------
- pin/pad bounding box calculation fixed. Components can
now be placed closer to the edge of the board.
- miter trace optimization bug.
- Fix bug with pins which are enclosed by multiple polygons.
- Shorts to unnamed elements and pins are handled correctly.
- Various memory leaks fixed.
- Fixed some bugs with a really high zoom.
- Fixed default media selection in postscript print dialog
- Fix some DRC bugs with square pins.
------------------
Footprint Library:
------------------
- Added SOJ footprint family (~geda library)
- Added CTS series 742/3/4/5/6 resistor pack footprints (~cts library)
- Added PKG_CONNECTOR_DIL macro to let the HEADER*_1 footprints work
(~geda library)
- Correct the SDIP footprints (~geda library)
- Correct some Minicircuits footprints (~minicircuits library)
- Correct some panasonic footprints (~panasonic library)
- Change refdes silk size for sockets (~johnstech library)
- Increase soldermask relief on some mounting holes
(~johnstech library)
- Convert the COMMON_SMT_DIL_MIL and COMMON_SMT_DIL_MM macros
used by several other libraries to the hi-res format.
- Correct pin count on 100 pin QFP packages (100 not 72)
(~geda library)
- Correct pin count on HEADER60_2 (60 not 50) (~geda library)
additions/changes since gerbv-0.15:
* projects: you can save and load setups in what I call projects.
* GTK+ 2 support
* Now you can invert a layer by the push of button. Basically.
* When gerber files were defined with omit trailing zeros, gerbv could
parse them very bad. Now it should work better.
* Aperture macros did not handle exposures at all. Now they do a better
work. Some thermals are defined from their CAD program as a sequence of
aperture macros instead of just using aperture macro 7. They are drawn
better now.
* Handles tool tables when drawing drill files thanks to Dimitri. See man
page for more info.
