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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2015-03-05 10:07 GMT+01:00 LordBlick <lordblick@xxxxxxxxx>:
> In response to a message written on 02.03.2015, 23:10, from Murat Ursavaş:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to KiCad development and have some ideas to include into the
>> package.
>> The most important one is "Assembly Variant Management", which is missing,
>> AFAIK. Am I right?
>>
>> Is there anybody working on this subject? I've not seen any entry in the
>> mailing
>> list archive.
>
> KiCAD, as Open Source project, usually has traditional property - if you
> need
> some feature, make it by you own… ;)
> However now it's pretty easy - pcbnew has python interface. I think that
> growing
> KiCAD sources is not so good idea. Plugins should goes to any other
> repository
> in example on Github. Independently any user can publish self-made script on
> similar site. KiCAD can bring only one thing - site with links of tested and
> found usable python co-applications, maybe sub-domain:
> http://pyapps.kicad-pcb.org/ ?

A plugin manger as we see in many other apps would be a nice feature to this.