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Re: Schematic I/O plugin.

 

This broke all my designs with microchip parts (which have forward slashes
in the symbol names). Sadpanda.jpg

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I just pushed my changes to make the schematic I/O plugin the default
> for all schematic and symbol library I/O.  This is a pretty significant
> change.  I tested everything I could think of but there may be some
> corner cases that I missed.  I also used LIB_ID instead of wxString to
> store symbol library lookup information.  For now, it behaves the same
> way it always has.  Please let me know if you find any issues and I will
> try to fix them as quickly as possible.  KICAD_USE_SCH_IO_MANAGER is no
> longer a build option.
>
> I'm going to try to get the symbol library table implemented in the next
> week or so.  This will likely be the last of the schematic I/O changes
> before the next stable release.  I am going to push the new file formats
> to the stable 6 release due to the increasing amount of time I am
> spending doing project management stuff and the equally decreasing
> amount of time I have to code.  Given that none of the new features
> provided by the new file formats would have been implemented for the
> stable 5 release, I don't think this is a major setback.  This will give
> us some more time to further discuss the new file formats before I
> implement them.  The new file formats will be my first task after the
> stable 5 release.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
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