gEDA-dev: Call for gerbv-2.0.0-beta testers!

[David Carr]

Stuart,

The new release of gerbv is a vast improvement over the previous version. 
I especially like the interface improvements.  The only downside that I
noticed was the appearance of vertical lines in sliced PCB polygons when
"high quality" rendering is selected.  These artifacts did not appear in
Normal or Fast modes.

-DC

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 21:38:03 -0500 (EST), Stuart Brorson <sdb at cloud9.net>
wrote:
> Gerbv has come a long way in the last few weeks.  We're poised to do a
> general release of gerbv-2.0.0, which is a major overhaul of
> gerbv-1.X.  I attach our release announcement below for you to see
> what's new.
> 
> Before the general release, we are anxious to have some beta testers
> take gerbv-2.0.0 out for a test drive.  Therefore, we are asking folks
> who read geda-dev to please take this opportunity to download the
> next-gen gerbv, try it out, and give us feedback.  You may download
> gerbv-2.0.0-beta from SourceForge:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gerbv/
> 
> While you're there, please check out the new screenshots showing all
> the excellent new features added by the gerbv team.
> 
> We are very interested in hearing about any bugs or misfeatures you
> encounter while trying out gerbv-2.0.0-beta.  If you experience any
> problems with the new gerbv, please either post your complaints on
> this list, or e-mail me directly at sdb (shift 2) cloud (period) net.
> 
> Thanks for checking out the new gerbv!
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> ---------------  <gerbv-2.0.0 release announcement>  --------------
> Hello!
> 
> This is to announce the beta test release of gerbv-2.0.0!
> 
> Release 2.0.0 represents a a whole new look for gerbv.  Most importantly,
> the
> layer control GUI has been made much more powerful through the
outstanding
> work of Julian Lamb.  Julian has also re-worked the GUI's button and
menus
> to
> make them more  convenient to use.  We are certain that you  will find
> gerbv-2.0.0 even easier to use than before because of Julian's amazing
> work!
> 
> Other changes include:
> 
> * Julian Lamb incorporated the cairo graphics library into gerbv,
>    thereby enabling export to a variety of different output file
>    formats, including PDF, PS, SVG, and PNG.
>    (GDK rendering remains available as a configure option for
>    older Linux systems.)
> * Drill parser rewrite by Joerg Wunsch giving better support for
>    internationalization and formats.
> * Added report windows showing statistics of Gerber and
>    drill codes used (as well as CAM errors) by Stuart Brorson.
> * Parser improvements from Stefan Petersen and Julian Lamb.
> * Aperture handling improvements from Stefan Petersen.
> * A new unit test suite (and nightly test runs) by Dan McMahill.
> * Improved autodetection of file-type by Stuart Brorson.
> * Improvements in the graphical rendering of pick-and-place files.
> * Export of images from the command line (cairo only).
> * Complete implementation of the Gerber spec.
> * Open multiple layers at once in File->Open dialog.
> 
> This is a beta test release to the denizens of geda-dev.  We would
> appreciate
> it if you could take some time to download the beta test release of
> gerbv-2.0.0-beta and take it for at test drive.  If you find any bugs,
> please
> report them on the gerbv.sf.net bug tracker (or email one of the gerbv
> developers).
> 
> The homepage for gerbv still lives on SourceForge:
>          http://gerbv.sourceforge.net/.
> There you will find a bug database, a feature request database, the CVS
> repo
> and a commit mailinglist.
> 
> To download gerbv-2.0.0-beta, go to
>          http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gerbv/
> and grab gerbv-2.0.0-beta.tar.gz
> 
> To install gerbv do this:
> 1. tar zxf gerbv-2.0.0-beta.tar.gz
> 2. cd gerbv-2.0.0-beta
> 3. ./configure
> 4. make && make install
> 
> Interesting configure options are:
> --help              : Lists all configure options.
> --disable-cairo     : Use GDK instead of cairo for graphics rendering.
> --disable-exportpng : Disable compilation of export of PNGs.
> --prefix=<dir>      : Install to dir <prefix>.
> --with-maxfiles     : Set maximal number of files (default 20).
> --enable-unit-mm    : Change default unit in status bar to mm from inch.
> 
> Thank you for trying out gerbv-2.0.0-beta!
> 
>                                -- The gerb team
> 
> ------------