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Re: Eeschema refactor.

 

It's on my short list after I finish the 4.0.1 stable release.

On 12/9/2015 12:57 AM, Jon Neal wrote:
> Any thought on merging Chris's autoplace fields feature before you start
> changing things that touches? I would love to see that since it makes
> the eeschema workflow a bit easier.
> 
> The conversation was sort of dropped after Chris made an updated patch.
> 
> Jon
> 
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Henner Zeller <h.zeller@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:h.zeller@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Wayne,
>     Do you have a todo-list somewhere on the things you intend to work on
>     ? I think everyone on this list has a rough idea of TODOs they want to
>     work on (I know I do, but I only have limited time), but if we put
>     them somewhere easy to manage (maybe even the bugtracker, but I think
>     it sucks big time), then this might be good.
> 
>     On 8 December 2015 at 15:58, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     > Yesterday I committed the first of a series of patches that are part of
>     > the Eeschema refactor work.  As of right now I have 41 patches queued up
>     > with more to come.
> 
>     Wow, that sounds prolific!
> 
>     >  I will apply them slowly over the next few months
>     > just in case I managed to break anything.  The first few patches should
>     > be pretty benign but as time goes by, they will have the potential to
>     > become more disruptive.  If you find anything that is broken, please let
>     > me know right away so I can get it fixed.  You should be able to see a
>     > pattern pretty quickly with the first few patches.  I will slowly roll
>     > the functionality of SCH_SHEET_PATH, SCH_SHEET_LIST, and SCH_SCREENS
>     > into the SCH_SHEET object where the entire schematic hierarchy will
>     > live.  Once that is complete, I will create a top level SCHEMATIC object
>     > that will act as the top level container similar in scope to the BOARD
>     > object in Pcbnew.
> 
>     Nice!
> 
>     >  Hopefully this transition will be fairly smooth so I
>     > can start on the schematic I/O manager and the new file formats
>     sometime
>     > later this year.
>     >
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