Log Message:
update to 20040111.

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.