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leoheck / kiri

Kiri is a visual tool designed for reviewing schematics and layouts of KiCad projects that are version-controlled with Git.
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kicad 7? #71

Closed MarcelRobitaille closed 1 year ago

MarcelRobitaille commented 1 year ago

The README lists support for kicad 5 and kicad 6. Is there support for kicad 7? If not, is it planned? As far as I know, the file format changed again in 6 -> 7.

leoheck commented 1 year ago

Hi @MarcelRobitaille

Which file are you saying is not the same anymore?

As I know Kicad file format is still the same. I haven't tried it yet, but the way Kiri works it should work with Kicad 7 out of the box unless there are some issues in the code.

Did you try Kiri with a Kicad 7 project? Do you have a repo with Kicad 7 so I can check that too?

I am working to use kicad-cli tools to plot schematics, since the current way it works with a GUI workaround for Kicad 6/7.

But the current version should work. However, I did not try to check it directly, yet.

leoheck commented 1 year ago

I am seeing Kicad 7 indeed changes some things in some files, but the format is still the same.

Kiri should work unless it has some bugs that I am not aware yet.

Well, I will try to verify this to see if I can do something for us...

MarcelRobitaille commented 1 year ago

Hi leoheck. Thanks for your answer. No, I didn't try it yet. It seems not trivial to set up, so I didn't want to go through all of that if it wasn't going to work. I will try it now.

leoheck commented 1 year ago

Yeah, it should work out of the box for Kicad 7.

I tested it myself on a project that I converted it from the Kicad 6. For Schematic since Kicad 6 does not have this kicad-cli, it won't use it for Kicad 6 and 7 files. It will use the GUI with the xdotool which is a workaround. I am preparing a branch to test this new behavior if kicad-cli is present. It is almost there, but there is some work to be done yet.

Now, to install it, it is just a matter of copying/pasting 2 commands from the Readme.

leoheck commented 1 year ago

@MarcelRobitaille, there is this branch kicad-cli that you can test. This should plot schematics of Kicad 6 and 7 better-using kicad-cli (from Kicad 7) if it is installed in your system. Hope it works for you.

MarcelRobitaille commented 1 year ago

Thanks @leoheck

Now, to install it, it is just a matter of copying/pasting 2 commands from the Readme.

Those scripts don't support my system.

MarcelRobitaille commented 1 year ago

Using kicad-cli would be super cool! Thanks!

leoheck commented 1 year ago

Those scripts don't support my system.

Which system?

MarcelRobitaille commented 1 year ago

Arch Linux. I was able to install it now, but I'm still running into #72

leoheck commented 1 year ago

What is the package manager of Arch? I could add support..

leoheck commented 1 year ago

Maybe it would be better since I am trying the kicad-cli branch and it looks good here. I use Ubuntu 22.10.

Could you also check it using my design here? https://github.com/leoheck/assoc-board I am using it to test.

leoheck commented 1 year ago

This looks working for me, but feel free to reopen the ticket if you still have problems.

leoheck commented 1 year ago

Ah, the kicad-cli branch was merged on main branch if you wish to test it one more time, you could use it from there.

MarcelRobitaille commented 1 year ago

What is the package manager of Arch? I could add support..

It is pacman. However, it would be more idiomatic to package the software for the aur user repositories. I might be able to work on this.

leoheck commented 1 year ago

Not sure if this is good. Kiri is a script that works on top of a bunch of other tools. I can start supporting it in the dependencies_installer, but I was not able to install arch easily. Do you know if it has an easy-to-install distro?

Changing topics, could you make kiri work?

MarcelRobitaille commented 1 year ago

Kiri is a script that works on top of a bunch of other tools.

That shouldn't be a problem. Kiri can depend on those packages and they will automatically be installed. I think some of them are also not in the AUR, in which case I would package those up too.

Do you know if it has an easy-to-install distro?

There are some arch-based distros that are easier to install: Manjaro, Garuda, and a few others I can't remember.

Changing topics, could you make kiri work?

No, I'm still having the problem discussed in #72

leoheck commented 1 year ago

I tried Manjaro, but using gnome-boxes I could not install it yet. I have to figure out why Manjaro is not finding any disks. But I will update my install_dependencies to have kiri installed with packman. If you did something to make that happen and want to share, this could speed up things for me.

FPiorski commented 10 months ago

install_plugin.sh needs to be updated for everything to work out of the box

leoheck commented 10 months ago

Hi @FPiorski I did not understand what you are requesting. Please, open a new issue so we can discuss it better, there.