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Re: Title block date in pcbnew

 

On 05/01/2013 01:20 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:09:42PM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
>> No, if you need that, make it a complie time option that defaults to not
>> enabled, so current behavior is retained by default.
>>
>> I truly hope this is clear.
> 
> OK, my build is customized anyway, so it's not a problem *for me*.
> 
> But, suppose I'm a user opening a ticket because the date is not working
> anymore. Strange it's not happened already.
> 
> What would you say? "The date is not supported anymore and the space in
> the title block is a decorative blank"?
> 
> I think that's an unreasonable feature loss. I agree that having the
> date updated automatically can be a nuisance. What have you against
> adding the date as an editable field for the title block?
> 
> I'd like to know what's your reasoning

1) Take the comment, from the line of code, and send it through google translate.

2) I wrote the code, it works the way I like it.  You can verify this with bzr qlog.


Those should be two very good reasons.




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