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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, this is soundly on my "burn for warmth instead of maintaining" list, but I
think someone else may have stuck up for this one a while ago.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:43:50AM +0000, Jon Neal wrote:
> In the same vein, what about the autoplace functions? I tried them a couple
> of times just to see what they would do (really to see if it was worth it
> to port over to GAL) and yikes. It is way, way too simplistic to do
> anything useful and from the small amount I tested it has a handful of
> issues with it.
> 
> Jon
> 
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:18 PM Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > I just asked on forum.kicad.info.
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 07:05:03PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> > > I've never used it.  Anyone else find it a must have?  You might want to
> > > get some feedback from users to see if anyone would miss it.  It should
> > > be undoable though.
> > >
> > > On 4/12/2016 6:54 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > > > It's not even undoable - so not only is it kinda useless, it's
> > _broken_.
> > > >
> > > > Please? It's so much nicer not to have to maintain this stuff. :D
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 06:40:07PM -0400, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > > >> I wonder how many of you are even aware of DIALOG_ORIENT_FOOTPRINTS.
> > It's
> > > >> hidden in the Secret Menu in pcbnew (the spread-and-place) one, menu
> > item
> > > >> Orient All Footprints. The code hasn't been touched since 2010 except
> > a few
> > > >> cleanups, and it seems really simplistic and useless to me. I was
> > going to
> > > >> upgrade it to floating-point angle entry like everything else, but....
> > > >>
> > > >> Does _anybody_ even use this? It seems utterly useless. I have no
> > idea when
> > > >> you'd want to globally apply an orientation to footprints. Can I just
> > tear it
> > > >> out?  :P
> > > >>
> > > >> --
> > > >> Chris
> > > >
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