gen_gerber_and_drill_files_board.py:
* fix to make it compatible with rev 6280.
* allow this script to create files in the current plot folder defined from the board forder, no more only in current working directory.
reasons:
* This option is called "bad practice" in gerber files format specifications and is even forbidden in gerber drill files.
* Generates problems with some board makers because these holes are not identified in a single NC file.
* No one was able to explain us how to identified them in a single NC file.
* Recent change in drill file generation is not compatible with merged holes (minor reason)
Drill report: serious enhancements.
Plot files names for copper layers: build from the user layer name, like in bzr 4022 stable version. no change for other layers.
Pcbnew: Plot files: for copper layers, create suffix from user copper layer names instead of default copper layer names, like in last stable Kicad version (bzr 4022), to build the plot files filenames.
Better test of illegal chars in plot filename, both in plot dialog and functions aclled by Python scripts.
Fix a Plotcontroller issue to make SetUseGerberExtensions() work as expected from Python scripts ( from Henner Zeller'patch with a fix to be sure it works properly from a Python script)
Note also using Protel Gerber Extensions is now a bad practice, because the official Gerber extension is .gbr since X2 Gerber version. But some users still use them)
* The board ratsnest visibility state was being saved in both the board file
and the Pcbnew configuration files causing visibility state issues. Use the
board file to save the board ratsnest visibility state.
* Remove all of the board ratsnest save visibility state to configuration file
code.
* Add code to set the board modified property when layer visibility states
change to give the user a chance to save the state in the board file.
* Some minor code cleaning and coding policy fixes.
* Recognize values with units in more recent gEDA footprint files and scale accordingly.
* Join both parseInt() implementations. This should reduce rounding errors as well as
code duplication.
* Fix missing link to MinGW website.
* Add link to library dependency section in introduction.
* Add "Known Issues" section to document known build issues.
* Change command blocks from using ``` to delineate block and use indentation
instead. The ``` method seems to be broken on Doxygen 1.8.9.1 used by the
autobuilder. It also removes the line numbering which did not make sense
for commands that spanned multiple lines.
* Add compiling.md with most of the important information from the plain
text versions of platform specific compiling files.
* Remove the old plain text compiling files and folder.
* Make the about dialog help string consistent across all menus.
* Improve print preview window and print initialization error messages.
* The usual smattering of coding policy fixes.
* Add skip event to notebook page changed event handler. Apparently OSX
updates the selected notebook page in this event instead of the page
changing event used on Window and Linux.
* Improve duplicate net class name error message.
jean-pierre charras
Simon Wells
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Wayne Stambaugh
Tomasz Wlostowski
Maciej Suminski
Simon Wells
Dimitris Lampridis
Stefan (stol)