"Replicate layout" plugin for KiCad nightly version 7.99?

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Hi,
I have a tendency to develop live projects with nightly builds of kicad now living on the edge like that I was wondering if there’s a version of RL(Replicate layout) Plugin for the latest kicad build sins the install button is ghosted in the “Addon manager” I tryed installing it from a file from here: https://github.com/MitjaNemec/ReplicateLayout/releases/tag/2.1.2

It showed me an error message of a few tries and discouraged me from try to debug it (haven’t mingled with kicad dev stuff for a long time and never been a pro at it either)

So I came here to ask if there is a version of it for the Nightly build of kicad 7.99 outhere?

Or any suggestions on how to adapt the stable RP plugin version to nightly?

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No, and as the nightly version python bindings tend to change I don’t plan to support the nightly KiCad releases.

Look at the errors reported, look at the 7.0 python bindings docs (https://docs.kicad.org/doxygen-python-7.0/namespacepcbnew.html) and 7.99 python binding docs (https://docs.kicad.org/doxygen-python-nightly/namespacepcbnew.html) and figure out what you need to change.

If you get it working, I am open to creating a 7.99 branch in the main repo, where you could merge the changes.

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Does it somewhat officially support 7.0? I get errors like these when trying to open the plugin:

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Whoa, you seem to be running quite an old version of the plugin. You should remove this and reinstall the plugin via PCM.

For future, I preffer that user report the issue on the plugins github page under issues.

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Thanks for replying anyways, appreciate it.

It’s strange because the plugin was downloaded from github, and I tried posting an issue there but couldn’t find the button to do so. There was a banner saying the project was archived or something.

I’ll use PCM

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Yeah, I should have been more specific about the changes.

I’ve just added a notice to the Github landing page

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The method GetProperty(foo) is not exposed anymore via Python. Now it is necessary to use GetSheetname and so on.

O have proposed a commit for v7.99.

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I was able to get this working with the latest kicad 7.99 by making the changes described. I can’t attach my new replicate_layout.py as I am a new user. Instead, I’ve noted changed lines below. It is sourced from the latest gihub release.

Lines 133 & 134

                sheet_file = fp.GetSheetfile()
                sheet_name = fp.GetSheetname()

Lines 166 & 167

                sheet_file = fp.GetSheetfile()
                sheet_name = fp.GetSheetname()

Line 641

            if type(item) is pcbnew.LAYER_FP_TEXT:
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For easier installation I’ve prepared a PCM compatiple package. Available at Release 7.99 compatible release · MitjaNemec/ReplicateLayout · GitHub

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