Version 5.0.64 & 5.0.65 bug
There was a bug introduced in version 5.0.64 / 4.7.103 that caused reading a library to either crash or fail to correctly set up techfile layers, Please update to version 5.0.66 / 4.7.105 asap.
Author: Keith
Mac M1 build
The Mac M1 build had a few issues. The Python library path was incorrectly set, also a couple of the libraries and Gemini were built as x86_64 code, not arm64. This has now been fixed.
Signed Mac apps
The Mac versions of Glade have now been signed, so Gatekeeper should not use randomised path execution of the app (and hence fail to correctly initialise Python or read the basic library). Note you may still get a popup saying ‘Glade can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software’. If you do,…
New Linux platform builds
Ubuntu 22.04 and Mint 21.1 (Cinnamon) have been added to the build list as native builds. Enjoy!
Mac M1 native arm64 port
The long awaited port of Glade to native M1 code on the Mac has finally happened. Preliminary results show it’s about 50% faster than the equivalent x86 Mac or emulation under Rosetta. There may be a few build dependency issues, if so please report them.
Crash on 5.0.54/4.7.93
An incorrect rpath to the Python framework on the most recent version caused a crash on Mac OSX. This has now been fixed and a new build uploaded. Thanks to those that reported it.
Python and OSX
Back last year Apple started discontinuing support for Python in OSX. Now, as of Monterey 12.3, Python is no longer shipped with the OS. There *is* a python3 exe in /usr/bin but that’s as far as it gets – no framework to build/link to. So as of now, the Mac version of Glade ships with…
Linux rendering bug
Back in early November the Qt version for (most) Linux builds was updated to 5.15.7 from 5.15.2. This caused a rendering bug, it seems from a thread synchronisation issue. So as of 5.0.40/4.7.79 the Qt version for linux has been rolled back. The next update will be to Qt6 but that’s a way off as…
Python2 and Monterey
So as usual Apple introduce a new version of their OS, Monterey, and as usual it breaks things. Things you took for granted. Like Python, which ships with the OS as Python2, despite this being deprecated. Now Apple could have dropped Python2 and switched to Python3 (and shipped that with the OS). But they didn’t,…
Glade licensing
For a long time now Glade has been entirely free software. It’s being used by many different users – commercial, academic and individuals to design real circuits. As the user base has grown it has become necessary to support more users and to fund development, and this is hard to do under the current model.…