Fixed minimum KiCad version required is 5.1.6.

- KiCad 5.1.5 lacks GetBuildVersion()
- Fixes #45

README.md

@@ -1527,7 +1527,7 @@ I don't know how to make it.
 
 ### Installation on other targets
 
-- Install KiCad 5.x
+- Install KiCad 5.1.6 or newer
 - Install Python 3.5 or newer
 - Install the Python Yaml and requests modules
 - Run the script *src/kibot*

debian/control

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ X-Python3-Version: >= 3.6
 Package: kibot
 Architecture: all
 Multi-Arch: foreign
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}, python3-yaml, kicad (>= 5.1.0), python3-wxgtk4.0
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}, python3-yaml, kicad (>= 5.1.6), python3-wxgtk4.0
 Recommends: kibom.inti-cmnb (>= 1.8.0), interactivehtmlbom.inti-cmnb, pcbdraw, imagemagick, librsvg2-bin, python3-xlsxwriter, rar
 Description: KiCad Bot
  KiBot is a program which helps you to automate the generation of KiCad

docs/README.in

@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ I don't know how to make it.
 
 ### Installation on other targets
 
-- Install KiCad 5.x
+- Install KiCad 5.1.6 or newer
 - Install Python 3.5 or newer
 - Install the Python Yaml and requests modules
 - Run the script *src/kibot*

kibot/__main__.py

@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ log.set_domain('kibot')
 logger = log.init()
 from .docopt import docopt
 from .gs import (GS)
-from .misc import NO_PCB_FILE, NO_SCH_FILE, EXIT_BAD_ARGS, W_VARSCH, W_VARCFG, W_VARPCB, NO_PCBNEW_MODULE, KICAD_VERSION_5_99
+from .misc import (NO_PCB_FILE, NO_SCH_FILE, EXIT_BAD_ARGS, W_VARSCH, W_VARCFG, W_VARPCB, NO_PCBNEW_MODULE,
+                   KICAD_VERSION_5_99, W_NOKIVER)
 from .pre_base import (BasePreFlight)
 from .config_reader import (CfgYamlReader, print_outputs_help, print_output_help, print_preflights_help, create_example,
                             print_filters_help)
@@ -211,7 +212,12 @@ def detect_kicad():
                      " Is KiCad installed?"
                      " Do you need to add it to PYTHONPATH?")
         sys.exit(NO_PCBNEW_MODULE)
-    GS.kicad_version = pcbnew.GetBuildVersion()
+    try:
+        GS.kicad_version = pcbnew.GetBuildVersion()
+    except AttributeError:
+        logger.warning(W_NOKIVER+"Unknown KiCad version, please install KiCad 5.1.6 or newer")
+        # Assume the best case
+        GS.kicad_version = '5.1.5'
     m = re.search(r'(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)', GS.kicad_version)
     GS.kicad_version_major = int(m.group(1))
     GS.kicad_version_minor = int(m.group(2))

kibot/misc.py

@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ W_FAILDL = '(W048) '
 W_NOLAYER = '(W049) '
 W_EMPTYZIP = '(W050) '
 W_WRONGCHAR = '(W051) '
+W_NOKIVER = '(W052) '
 
 
 class Rect(object):