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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eh. I agree 100% about hidden pins being Bad, anyone using them surely should
be tarred and feathered. But I'm not sure it's our place to enforce good
schematic drawing practices. If people want to use KiCad to draw terrible,
horrible schematics, they'll find a way. Personally, I'm *strongly* against
breaking old projects, the feature should be kept around at least as a legacy
support feature for old projects that are imported.

I just don't use hidden pins, they're strictly forbidden in my libs and I would
never use them for anything other than implementing power symbols.

On the fence about net names.

On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 03:22:04PM +0100, André S. wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> this issues are still on my wishlist for KiCad:
> - Ban hidden Pins.
> - Disallow multiple labels on the same net.
> Especially the combination of those two is a source for non-obvious design
> bugs.
> 
> Wayne recently stated that now the planning for release 5 has started, so I
> just thought I bring it up again.
> 
> I wrote a blog entry why I think those two topics should be addressed, you
> can find it here (warning: wall of text ahead ;)):
> http://transistorgrab.de/2016/02/05/why-hidden-pins-are-evil-and-nets-should-only-have-one-name/
> 
> I'm really interested that at least there is a definite conclusion for KiCad
> and that this conclusion is then put somewhere obvious in the documentation
> with all the pitfalls that come with that features and how to avoid them.
> 
> Thanks in advance for anyone taking part in the discussion. :)
> 
> Best Regards,
>   André
> 
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