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Feature freeze.

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: KiCad Developers <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> From : Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>

: Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> Date : Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:23:14 -0400

: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:23:14 -0400 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0

Attention all developers. I have finally committed the environment variable configuration dialog (although I named it the "Path Configuration" because the term environment variable is apparently too scary) so we are now in feature freeze. This means if you want to add a new feature or change any functional behavior you must run it by the developers list first. This includes me as well. The only thing I'm aware that's already in the pipe line at the moment is the footprint wizard that Orson is working on so that can be committed without approval. Please test the path configuration editor to make sure it is robust for the stable release. I did not do anything too fancy in the wxGrid control used in the editor so the grid editing will be very basic. Also, I kept the default wxGrid tab key behavior which means you will have to use Ctrl+Tab to perform the default action which is the OK button. I also created a warning dialog using wxRichMessageDialog when an externally defined environment variable is modified. I'm not really thrilled with the appearance of this dialog so I will most like roll my own version that will look a bit like our exit dialog but feed back would be appreciated. This also means that KiCad will no longer build against wxWidgets 2.8 for anyone out there still clinging to that version. Now that we are in feature freeze it's time to take stock on what is going on in other areas such as documentation and nightly builds so I will be sending out additional topic specific messages over the next few days. Thanks, Wayne

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