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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Patch committed.  Thanks Nick.

On 9/16/2016 4:12 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 2016-09-15 20:33 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> On 9/15/2016 1:39 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I was going to submit a patch to update the short description for the
>>> various folders in the the root of the kicad source repo, but I am a
>>> bit confused to what to write for the "new" folder.
>>>
>>> My best suggestion for it was something like "Old crap (not built)" or
>>> Draft for undocumented SWEET concept. Those descriptions are not
>>> really helpfull at all.
>>
>> Sweet is the eeschema analog to pcbnew's pretty.  It's just the name
>> given to the new component library file format.  Once sweet is
>> implemented KiCad will be pretty sweet.  Yes, it's silly.  But what's
>> life without a little whimsy.
>>
> 
> I see. Attached is my proposal for a more up to date overview.
> 
> Please note the TODO.txt description. Maybe it should just be removed,
> and possibly be moved to the doxygen devdocs if it is supposed to
> exist.
> 
> Also, it seems that the helpers and tools dir have sort of similar purpose.
> 
>>>
>>> What is the use of this folder? As far as I can see nothing in there
>>> is built. it seems to be a stashing place for something called SWEET.
>>>
>>> Is this a eeschema pendant to pcbnew's pretties?
>>> Is the new folder to be deleted or kept for future reference?
>>> Is this related to Wayne's eeschema refactoring?
>>
>> Possibly, that's why it's been kept around.  Once the new schematic and
>> file formats are completed, I will remove the new/ folder.
>>
> 
> Ok.
> 
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
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