kicad 7? about kiri

[leoheck]

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]

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]

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]

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]

@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]

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]

Using kicad-cli would be super cool! Thanks!

[leoheck]

Those scripts don't support my system.

Which system?

[MarcelRobitaille]

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

[leoheck]

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

[leoheck]

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]

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

[leoheck]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[leoheck]

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