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["emmedics4" <marco.serantoni@...>]

--- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...> wrote:
> Marco,
> Thanks for your efforts, we are really enjoying the results of your work. 
> If you save off the current *.cpp file, fix up the *.fbp, generate a new 
> *.cpp and do a diff between the old and new *.cpp files, this will offer 
> you some assurance that your *.fbp work is good.

This crosschecking is what i were doing and sadly there are new incongruences 
between fbp files and generated code, i think we wish recover after the release.

> 1) we are nearing a release, so starting a task that cannot be completed 
> within a couple of weeks is probably best left to be done after the 
> release. (Jean-Pierre should probably set that deadline, don't know 
> that we have one yet? I suspect he waiting for my work, and I am 
> working on PCBNEW layer widget incorporation today and should be done 
> within a day or two.)

This was what i were thinking too, at this point i think is better refine what 
were already done postponing this work after the release when we could have
more time to work on.
Sadly the WX port for 64 bit OSX is really recent and adjustments and bugs are
to be respectively taken and tackled i hope that some #ifdef could be eliminated
once the tickets opened with wx developers are resolved.

> 2) Work done on somebody else's code has a higher burden of correctness 
> than new work. We don't want to piss off anybody. Dialogs are not 
> easy to do correctly, and some of us have spent a lot of time recently 
> fixing dialogs for expandability, retentitive sizes & positions, 
> capitalization consistent with UIpolicy.txt, spacing, and fonts not 
> fitting within the bounds of their controls. It is difficult for 
> anybody to watch investments like this go up in smoke. New code has a 
> lower burden of correctness, whereas existing code needs to take into 
> consideration the respect for the time spent by those before you. This 
> pertains to copyright notices, etc.
> Thanks for your efforts, we are really enjoying the results of your work. 
> As we bring new developers in the front door, it is important that we 
> don't lose old developers out the back door because they have their 
> noses bent out of shape.

In the respect i have for this, i was notify in the most respectfully and fast
way with the meaning to avoid that some efforts and order could be lost 
from a new svn checkout or whatelse.

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Marco