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: 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.
BUGS/ERRATA/LAST MINUTE ISSUES
* The following features/bugs did not make it into this release:
- I have a working version of gaf using gtk+ 2.2.1. I still
need to finish up the changes to the various ./configure
scripts so that gaf can use either 1.2.x and 2.2.x. I didn't
get to doing this in this release. I still have some more
time before gtk+ 2.2.x takes over.
- I also have a new better looking and easier to use
print dialog box. A whole slew of bugs prevented me from
checking this code in. Still working on this one.
* Thanks to all who contributed to this release.
* As usual, send all bug reports and suggestions to geda-dev /
geda-user or directly to me. Thanks.
DOWNLOAD:
http://www.geda.seul.org/source.html
http://www.geda.coelacanth.com/source.html
http://ieee.ing.uniroma1.it/geda/source.html
http://ftp.sunet.se/geda/source.html
SOURCE TARBALLS:
md5sum Name Size
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18dbd24d55e0e87acb534c4f5cf9e746 *Makefile 28k
ec5457cf96c4e5dc3345aeeb50ca6a7b *geda-20030525.tar.gz 240k
8b401b45a144578e839965d9ef0beeb7 *geda-docs-20030525.tar.gz 896k
4f840cb9c72515ceeb12771e58547356 *geda-examples-20030525.tar.gz 240k
1bfcfe2d150af7c421598e75d0911ee0 *geda-gnetlist-20030525.tar.gz 284k
f46e477e054aeec7e9ec18433f518823 *geda-gschem-20030525.tar.gz 1352k
5856f9b9a7f968f73ff5a46245fb5e2c *geda-gsymcheck-20030525.tar.gz 140k
a97292293d92b04ae4932abd724fd5e9 *geda-setup-20030525.tar.gz 292k
be61cb20cae4ea3fd46e386dd4940291 *geda-symbols-20030525.tar.gz 524k
cfe95566504fa6a06bb6b5cc81c8afd7 *geda-utils-20030525.tar.gz 200k
49c4807f03761136cca8f8005de6539e *libgeda-20030525.tar.gz 864k
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Total ~5 Megs
Required libraries (http://www.geda.seul.org/dist):
* glib >= 1.2.3
* gtk+ >= 1.2.3
* guile 1.4.1 or 1.6.3
Required programs (http://www.geda.seul.org/dist):
* GNU gettext >= 0.11.5 (0.10.35 will NOT work)
Optional libraries (http://www.geda.seul.org/dist):
* LibStroke 0.5.1
* libgdgeda 2.0.9
* zlib 1.1.x
* libpng 1.2.x
BINARIES:
Unix
None yet
MinGW (Win32)
None yet
BUILDING, INSTALLING, RUNNING:
1) Download *all* the above files and the required libraries.
2) Build and install the required and optional libraries.
3) Untar all of the geda tar files in the same directory.
4) Set the prefix= variable in the Makefile
5) Run: make and set the specified variables (PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
6) Run: make install
-OR-
1) Download *all* the above 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.
-OR-
1) Download all the above files and the required libraries.
2) Build and install the required and optional libraries.
3) Untar all of the geda tar files in the same directory.
4) Go into each directory and run:
./configure [ with --prefix=$HOME/geda if you wish ]
make install
You must build and install the packages in the following order:
1. libgeda
2. symbols
3. gschem
4. gnetlist
5. gsymcheck
6. geda
7. utils
8. docs
9. examples