Release notes for the gEDA/gaf 1.1.0.20070705 development snapshot

• Libgeda's shared library version is now 30:0:0. (Ales Hvezda)
• Fixed a component add bug where you would cancel (via right mouse button or escape) and you wouldn't be able to escape placing components. (Ales Hvezda)
• Applied patch from Ivan Stankovic that displays entered characters in the status bar. (Ales Hvezda)
• Applied a few patches (added gschem_atexit mechanism and recent file support improvements) from Ivan Stankovic. (Ales Hvezda)
• Committed new version of gnet-calay from John with various fixes. (Ales Hvezda)
• Removed all traces of libgd and indent. (Ales Hvezda)
• Implemented the ability to change the color of junctions (code for #1746675). (Ales Hvezda)
• Updated spice-sdb golden file to pass make check. (Ales Hvezda)
• Changed gEDA/gaf's version mechanism to use new dotted X.Y.Z convention (Ales Hvezda)
• Integrated the latest wiki documentation from the geda website. (Ales Hvezda)
• Added new mathematica gnetlist backend by John P. Doty. (Ales Hvezda)
• Fixed a gschem race condition with mouse wheel scroll events (bug# 1740327). (Alex Precosky)
• Update gschem Dutch translations. (Bert Timmerman)
• Set alternative button order after buttons are created. (Carlos Nieves Onega)
• Fixed a nasty sudden exit when pressing no-action keys in gschem. (Carlos Nieves Onega)
• Added EPS support to gschem from Wojciech Kazubski. (Carlos Nieves Onega)
• Fix for lack of permission-related file attributes on MinGW. ((Carlos Nieves Onega)
• Avoid writing '\r' to files on MinGW. (Carlos Nieves Onega)
• Added check for missing pixmap file. (Carlos Nieves Onega)
• Load the GTK missing image pixmap if a pixmap is not found. (Carlos Nieves Onega)
• Removed code handling escape key presses in dialogs. (Carlos Nieves Onega)
• Convert the new attribute dialog to use GtkDialog. (Carlos Nieves Onega)
• Portability fixes for the testsuite. (Dan McMahill)
• guile-1.8.1 fixes and testsuite additions. (Dan McMahill)
• Add missing reference files to distribution and re-enable checks. (Dan McMahill)
• Converted all gattrib dialogs to use GtkDialog. (Ivan Stankovic)
• Removed most unused (#if 0'ed out) code from gschem. (Ivan Stankovic)
• Applied patch by Ivan Stankovic making dialogs within gschem save their position and size on exit and restore it on opening. (Peter Clifton)
• Fixed bug #1741452, segfault on "Include component as individual objects". (Peter Clifton)
• Updated the help menu in gschem. (Peter TB Brett)
• Add managed text buffers to libgeda. (Peter TB Brett)
• Make libgeda parse schematics from buffered data. (Peter TB Brett)
• Implemented new a component library system in libgeda and gschem. (Peter TB Brett)
• Provided better names for component sources. (Peter TB Brett)
• Added and updated scheme callbacks for new component library. (Peter TB Brett)
• Added mechanism to sort lists of component sources and symbols. (Peter TB Brett)
• Changed the way that component source conflicts are checked. (Peter TB Brett)
• Add component sources based on Scheme procedures. (Peter TB Brett)
• Matched .sym suffix case-insensively when building component library. (Peter TB Brett)
• Component library documentation updates. (Peter TB Brett)
• Changed all configure scripts to require Guile 1.8.x. (Peter TB Brett)
• Cleaned up code for status bar messages. (Peter TB Brett)
• Improved Guile configure checks & remove 1.4 compat. code. (Peter TB Brett)
• Replaced deprecated Guile functions & macros. (Peter TB Brett)
• Fixed gschem's sort-component-library option. (Peter TB Brett)
• Made libgeda define Guile variables for the gEDA data paths. (Peter TB Brett)
• Added infrastructure for installing Scheme files with libgeda. (Peter TB Brett)
• Refactored system rc files. (Peter TB Brett)
• Made component library search faster and more flexible. (Peter TB Brett)
• Fixed right parenthesis font definition. (Peter TB Brett)
• Always draw text placeholder box in correct place (#1740620). (Peter TB Brett)
• Added libgeda function which retrieves a list of symbols in use. (Peter TB Brett)
• Added fine-grained control over f_open() behavior. (Peter TB Brett)
• Added the ability preview data from a buffer in gschem. (Peter TB Brett)
• Added support for previewing of symbols from all library types. (Peter TB Brett)
• Made command-backed component sources more flexible. (Peter TB Brett)
• Changed to not use generic response IDs for compselect actions. (Peter TB Brett)
• Added a "Refresh" button to gschem's component selector. (Peter TB Brett)
• Added "In Use" view to gschem's component selector. (Peter TB Brett)
• Updated German translation. (Werner Hoch)
• Set default button for single attribute edit dialog. (Werner Hoch)

Notes/Bugs/Errata/Known Issues/Last Minute Issues

• This is the first 1.1.x development release/snapshot of gEDA/gaf. This release has many juicy changes, bug fixes, and new features. Please see the individual ChangeLogs for more details.
• This release will be shortly obsoleted by 1.1.1.
• Many thanks to everybody involved in this release.
• Please submit all bugs to the bug tracker.

Download

• http://www.geda.seul.org/devel/v1.1/1.1.0 (USA)
• http://ftp.sunet.se/geda/devel/v1.1/1.1.0 (Europe)

Required Libraries/Programs

Required libraries:
• gtk+ ≥ 2.4.x (tested with 2.8.x).
  NOTE: gtk+ 1.2.x is no longer supported.
• guile ≥ 1.8.x (tested with 1.8.1).
  NOTE: guile 1.4.x and 1.6.x are no longer supported.

Required programs:

• pkg-config ≥ 0.15.0
  NOTE: You MUST install pkg-config regardless of gtk+ version.

Optional libraries:

• LibStroke ≥ 0.5.1

Packages/Binaries/Installers

• Debian packages for unstable can be found here or using apt-get (might be slightly dated; soon to be updated).
• RPM packages for Fedora Core 6 can be found here.
• An updated gEDA Suite CD is currently being tested and will be uploaded soon.

Building/Installing/Running

There are several ways of building gEDA/gaf:

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, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH)
6. Run: make install
   This should complete with NO errors.
7. Run: gschem and select Help/Manual... for all available documentation.

   Before you run gschem, gnetlist, gattrib, or gsymcheck you will need to set those three environment variables, or add them to a shell startup file (.bashrc, or .bash_profile or .profile)

-OR-

1. Download all the above files and the required libraries.
2. Set the specified variables (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH) correctly to the place where you are installing everything.
3. Build and install the required and optional libraries.
4. Untar all of the geda tar files in the same directory.
5. 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. gattrib
   7. utils
   8. docs
   9. examples