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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/5/2015 2:44 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 02:31:06PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> There is absolutely nothing preventing you from doing this.  The reason
>> this isn't done is the list of transistor, op-amp, regulator, etc.
>> symbols would be huge and a maintenance nightmare given our resource
>> limitations.  The current symbol libraries are a good compromise.  There
> 
> Also I *never* found someone using a cad library as-is... we always
> customize the parts to our standards anyway!

Exactly!  If you took 50 engineers and told them to each make a fully
defined symbol library for any set or subset of components, you would
likely end up with 50 different libraries.  Generally speaking everyone
has different requirements so designing fully qualified symbol libraries
is a tricky business.  KiCad has opted to provide generic symbol
libraries for our users since we have no idea how they prefer to use them.

> 
> Talking about huge symbol lists... IIRC cadstar encodes in the library
> *each single resistor part number*. Of course there is a subscription
> service for that:P
>