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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/24/2014 2:54 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 04:53:39PM -0800, Henner Zeller wrote:
>> I don't think that the functionality of what cvpcb does now
>> will/should go away entirely. Having a tabular view of the whole BOM
>> essentially and quickly be able to review and change the one or other
>> footprint is great and needed, in particular in the final passes of a
>> project. Though it should not be an external program as it is now,
>> essentially communicating back and forth with files, which makes the
>> process tedious and error prone.

I should have been more clear.  The functionality will not go away.  The
stand alone application will go away.  The CvPcb functionality will be
pushed into one of (pcbnew most likely) the shared objects and will be
usable from either the schematic editor or the board editor.  I have
always found running CvPcb as separate application to associate
footprints to be cumbersome.  I would rather assign them when I'm
editing the schematic because I almost always know the footprint of the
component when I'm designing the circuit.

> 
> Never said to junk the tabular view. Something like the list views in
> orcad capture would actually very useful.
>