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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:18:56PM +0000, Simon Turner wrote:
> Well thank you ! just to make the end users life a misery ?
> Hopefully you can at least keep them compatible if you must split
> and make sure versions remain compatible. KiCAD is a nice program
> although it needs work doing to it. Please don't ruin the only
> option we do have in the hobbyist world for a serious PCB suit.

Not only hobbyist, please... we build more than ~1000 units with gerbers
generated by pcbnew (mostly 2 and 4 layer stuff) but we have no money
for 'big vendors'; and most low cost cads (to say some names: eagle and
ares) are piles of junk. Also not necessarily big vendors make good
products... if you look around the net EE (expedition express) is
nicknamed Endless Errors :D

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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