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[Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <miguelangel@xxxxxxx>]

I'm playing around, trying to swing-out classes of kicad & pcbnew, and it
doesn't look bad. I'll keep you updated.

[image: Imágenes integradas 1]
[image: Imágenes integradas 2]

I'll try to make some test modules for kicad/eeshcema, pcbnew, etc... :-)

Btw, is this the method to save a board?
    /**
     * Function Save
     * writes the data structures for this object out to a FILE in "*.brd"
format.
     * @param aFile The FILE to write to.
     * @return bool - true if success writing else false.
     */
    bool Save( FILE* aFile ) const;

What's the one to "Load"?

May be we should add some Save(char *filename)/Load, etc to ease the
process from any scripting



2012/2/18 Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> On 02/18/2012 03:48 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> > On 02/18/2012 03:21 PM, Karl Schmidt wrote:
> >> On 02/18/2012 01:58 PM, Hans Henry von Tresckow wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Fabio Varesano <
> fabio.varesano@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote: I think the
> >>> main point the OP was trying to make is that just merely adding a
> "Donate" button without
> >>> thinking about the underlying structure risks splitting a project
> apart.
> >> Exactly! Other projects have gone down that road (bad things happen) -
> the project should not
> >> collect money itself.  What I've been thinking about is a set up where
> someone that wants feature-x
> >> completed can write up the discription (including the coding standards)
> and then put it up for bid
> >> at someplace like http://www.projects2bid.com/ where the project gets
> awarded to the lowest bidder.
> >>
> >> At the same time, post in the mailing list that the feature is up for
> bid.  The project doesn't get
> >> destroyed by the politics of collecting money, yet the work gets funded.
> >>
> >> This is really not much different than when companies like Intel have
> their programers work on OS
> >> projects on company time.
> >>
> >>
> >> My hope is to get this meme in the minds of people asking for features
> so that kicad can continue to
> >> grow. I wonder why no-one hasn't set up a web site that is dedicated to
> doing this for OS projects?
> > They have.  One example is called Red Hat.  Last year their revenue
> exceeded 1 billion
> > dollars.
> >
> > Quality programmers don't work for free in general.  KiCad is an
> economic anomaly, and is
> > a mere fraction of what it could be if it was funded.
> >
> > Asking for the lowest bid and then expecting a bunch of crap to get
> committed to the
> > project is also not workable.  It won't get committed.
>
> Well let me tone that down a bit.  The concern is the coding standards and
> the bug free
> nature of the code.
>
> Beyond that if you can get this done with the lowest bidder, no objections
> whatsoever.
> Well done.
>
> Dick
>
>
>
>
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