September 2009 - electronic-lab - Fedora Mailing-Lists

[Fedora-electronic-lab] EL-5 comps versus FEL collection

by Chitlesh GOORAH

Hello there, On Fedora, we have a comps group 'electronic-lab' which facilitates the users' life to install FEL (Fedora Electronic Lab) collection: # yum groupinstall 'Electronic Lab' I wish to have a similar comps group for the EPEL-5 branch. Of course, not all packages under the FEL collection are in EPEL-5 branch due to compatibility reasons. If you are interested to follow FEL packages found in Fedora branches and EPEL-5 branch please visit * For detailed list with respective versions and build dates: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/list.html * FEL-12 Release Notes (EPEL-5 Repository Section) http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.pdf We already have 42 packages of the FEL collections in EPEL-5 repository. I really want to extend FEL support for the EL distributions as our userbase is growing and requesting long term support. Kind Regards, Chitlesh Goorah

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[Fedora-electronic-lab] Please review your section in FEL-12's release notes

by Chitlesh GOORAH

Dear Upstream, Fedora Packagers and FEL users, Your software have either been updated or included for the first time on the fedora repositories and EPEL-5 repository. We have reached Fedora 12 freeze period and it is schedule for general release on the 2009-11-10. We have jotted down the release notes of your software. We would appreciate if you could review the release notes section of your respective software releases. Our final draft is: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.pdf thank you Chitlesh -- Chitlesh GOORAH Fedora Electronic Lab Architect http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL

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[Fedora-electronic-lab] [Fedora Electronic Lab] #18: package gplcver

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#18: package gplcver --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: chitlesh | Owner: chitlesh Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 12 Component: VHDL/Verilog | Version: devel Keywords: | --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Anyone willing to maintain the spec file below ? -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/ticket/18> Fedora Electronic Lab <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab> Design, Simulate and Program electronics.

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[Fedora-electronic-lab] Request to register a "Main" desktop Category: Electronics

by Chitlesh GOORAH

Hello there, This is a request to register a "Main" desktop Category: Electronics so that it becomes a standard defined by http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html Name: Electronics Description : Electronics design and simulation software, e.g. a circuit designer Notes: (none) For nearly 3 years, Fedora is also striving to provide an advanced electronic design and simulation platform for electronic hardware development under the name of "Fedora Electronic Lab". In short we provide opensource solutions for people to develop from IC chips to a final product e.g openmoko smartphone. http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL I'm writing you this email on behalf of all upstream projects we are working with so that we all can deliver an unified and standard set of guidelines for other linux distributions, not only for Fedora. Problems we have WITHOUT this electronics main category: * The software we are providing do not fall under "Education" freedesktop MAIN category but fall into an advanced engineering category not yet defined by the freedesktop standard. At the same time, we don't want to mix software for Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, thus category "Engineering" isn't appropriate for a long term solution. * An unified and standard set of guidelines for all linux distributions and developers. * There are a lot of electronic "design flows". Each design flow contains various set of software. If all the software for electronic design falls into various categories, it does not give any linux distribution the proper credentials and value of their solutions. Opensource solutions are there but lost inside the bag. * No Compatibility across various desktop environments: KDE, gnome, XFCE, LXDE,... We are hoping that if this "Electronics" main category is approved, packagers of various distributions and developers will add Categories=Electronics; to their desktop files. In order not to drown other users into complexity, one of the gEDA developers came up with a small package called "electronics-menu" http://geda.seul.org/dist/electronics-menu-1.0.tar.gz which provides a "Electronics" menu as described by the RED arrow : http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/images/electronic-menu.png Please accept the icon provided http://geda.seul.org/dist/electronics-menu-1.0.tar.gz. On Fedora, we have tuned our GUI electronics software's desktop files so that they support this "Electronics" main category. I was told that even debian is opting for this type of menu category. As you can see on this page: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/list.html we have quite a handful set of GUI for electronic design. That said, other electronic solutions are also mixed and confuses a lot of users as they (newbies) can't distinguish the software set they need for their respective design flow (analog, digital, mixed signal, embedded). Hence, I've added submenu support to the http://geda.seul.org/dist/electronics-menu-1.0.tar.gz as described by the YELLOW arrow. However, we are still under discussion about the proper subcategory naming. Thus please leave these additional categories for a later discussion. http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/images/electronic-menu.png Kind regards, Chitlesh Goorah

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[Fedora-electronic-lab] Call for Review : FEL 12 Release Notes (draft)

by Chitlesh GOORAH

Hello there, We have drafted FEL'12 Release Notes, which we dearly want to hear your views. http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.pdf As you have read on fedora planet, many universities and small startups are deploying Fedora Electronic Lab. Thus we hope that these release notes will help them deduce whether they need to upgrade to Fedora 12 or not with respect to their needs and design flow. As the document reflects, 42 packages for electronic design and simulation are now available for the EL-5 branch. The document also entails some details about various patches we have applied on our packages, which are not yet available under upstream stable release. I'm happy to say have most of our upstream accepted most of our patches, which is good news for the opensource eco-system. For those who are eager to try our nightly FEL spins, please find the ISO here http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/electronic-lab/ Cheers, Chitlesh Goorah

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[Fedora-electronic-lab] [Fedora Electronic Lab] #52: URGENT : send release notes to John

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#52: URGENT : send release notes to John ---------------------------+------------------------------------------------ Reporter: chitlesh | Owner: chitlesh Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 12 'Constantine' Component: Documentation | Version: devel Keywords: | ---------------------------+------------------------------------------------ Please respond promptly. The different schedule for 12 caught us off guard, and we are scrambling to get the bulk of the release notes to L10N over the weekend. There will still be time for some tweaking, but we need to get the translators to work on the bulk of it. John J. McDonough -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/ticket/52> Fedora Electronic Lab <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab> Design, Simulate and Program electronics.

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[Fedora-electronic-lab] [Fedora Electronic Lab] #48: (tracker) verilog-mode update on Fedora rawhide

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#48: (tracker) verilog-mode update on Fedora rawhide ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Reporter: chitlesh | Owner: chitlesh Type: upstream | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 12 'Constantine' Component: FEL | Version: devel Keywords: | ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- verilog-mode (included in emacs upstream) is outdated and does not include the SystemVerilog and Open Verification Methodology (OVM) support. Fedora Electronic Lab needs this lastest verilog-mode features. Hence Loganaden Velvindron took the initiative to ensure emacs gets the latest verilog-mode version with appropriate testing. As for the EL-5 repository which includes emacs 21 does not have verilog- mode at all. A special package emacs-verilog-mode was pushed to the EL5 repository. This package is a Requires: of the "dinotrace" package. This ticket serves as a tracker on the progress made till now on this matter. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-07/msg01572.html If you have some updates on this tracker, pleas feel free to update it. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/ticket/48> Fedora Electronic Lab <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab> Design, Simulate and Program electronics.

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[Fedora-electronic-lab] is your package on FEL's 12 (rawhide) livedvd ?

by Chitlesh GOORAH

Hello there, Can you verify whether your package/packages are among the packages tagged for the FEL-12 Livedvd ? http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/electronic-lab/logs... If they are not on the log, please reply to this email and mention which packages are missing ? FYI: We now have a roughly nightly spin build at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/electronic-lab/ Are you guys free for a test day (as from the 28th of september) ? We need to ensure that our packages are properly integrated and that they at least pass the functional test and not only the smoke test. Cheers, Chitlesh -- Chitlesh GOORAH Fedora Electronic Lab Architect http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL

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[Fedora-electronic-lab] [Fedora Electronic Lab] #42: to package : Verilog Tool Framework

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#42: to package : Verilog Tool Framework ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: chitlesh | Owner: chitlesh Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 12 'Constantine' Component: digital design | Version: devel Keywords: verilog | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- vrq is verilog parser that supports plugin tools to process verilog. Current plugins include tools to perform x-propagation and to auto build hiearchy. We have to give verilog support on FEL a bit of leverage. http://sourceforge.net/projects/vrq/files/ -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/ticket/42> Fedora Electronic Lab <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab> Design, Simulate and Program electronics.

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[Fedora-electronic-lab] [Fedora Electronic Lab] #14: Component libraries

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#14: Component libraries -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Reporter: anonymous | Owner: chitlesh Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: trivial | Milestone: Component: FEL | Version: 10 Keywords: | -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- HI, I love the concept of FEL and I have FEL 10 installed. I have tried gSchem and Kicad before and the main problems I have are the lack of a broad component library. Will there be a move to create a component library to share? I see a site that has a conversion of Eagle libraries but I am not sure as to the legality or quality. Without offense, having gSchem, Kicad, and Xcircuit in the release, it seems like a lack of direction. I would pay for a GPL release that was focused and had a solid user supported component libraries. I ma not a great programmer so I am not sure how I can help. duncan.mcnamara(a)gmail.com -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/ticket/14> Fedora Electronic Lab <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab> Design, Simulate and Program electronics.

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electronic-lab September 2009