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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.
>
> Being able to quickly choose the footprint while choosing a particular
> component is useful in many other cases; you typically want to choose
> an initial footprint for your component; often you already know,
> because you spent some time choosing that component because of
> different footprint choices. In that case, having it simple to select
> the footprint while choosing the component is another important thing.

I like the what cvpcb does, in comparison to ther eda packages, the
fact that schematic symbols and footprints is kind of seperate things
is nice in kicad. I allows me to not worry about the footprint untill
I have iterated my schematic. Indeed getting rid of that wierd netlist
thing that has to be manually exported from eeschema to be read by
cvpcb would be nice to get rid of.