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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Careful about saying you've got time too loudly :)

For me, a clean compile takes 20 minutes, while a small change might
take a minute or two.

Adam Wolf

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Senthil Seveelavanan
<s.seveelavanan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Unfortunately/fortunately I have time in general but not money. I am a
> recent EE masters graduate, working as a freelancer on a simple board for a
> tiny fee. My immediate motivation for scripting support is for this board,
> but I have now resigned myself to drawing all the tracks manually to meet
> the deadline. But, the feature I am trying to implement (using scripting)
> seems essential, so I will endeavour to maintain my motivation to implement
> it - I want to use scripting to 'clone' tracks/vias of identical blocks
> .e.g. when designing a multi channel amplifier, so that you can layout one
> channel, and reference/clone the tracks for the other channels.
>
>
> also noob aside:
> When developing Kicad, what are the typical compile times between each edit?
> I assume that much of the code doesn't need to be recompiled each time one
> makes an edit to the code, and so it should take much less than the 45min+
> it was taking when I tried to build it. My experience with C++ has always
> been tiny files.
>
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