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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/9/2017 1:14 PM, Andy Peters wrote:
> 
>> On May 8, 2017, at 3:47 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 5/8/2017 6:22 PM, Oliver Walters wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This is probably best addressed to Wayne, or anyone else who is keenly
>>> interested in the new .sweet format.
>>>
>>> Currently there is a very heated thread on the forums regarding
>>> different resistor representations (people have too much time on their
>>> hands)
>>> - https://forum.kicad.info/t/alternate-resistor-symbol-kicad-evaluation-for-company-use/6310/62
>>
>> I will refrain from such unnecessary discussions due to lack of time.
>> There is absolutely nothing preventing users from using what ever
>> resistor symbol they want.  I don't understand the issue.  Just create a
>> new resistor symbol and give it a different name than 'R'.  Whether you
>> put it in a new library or an existing library seems really doesn't
>> matter.  Am I missing something else here?
> 
> The bitching is all about what the standard libraries should provide, and underlying it is the notion that the standard libraries should contain every symbol every user could possibly want, because nobody should have to make their own libraries.
> 
> And, of course by saying “Just create a new resistor symbol,” you’ll get a bunch of angry users saying, “SEE! The developers don’t listen to us!”

This comes up every so often and it never ceases to amaze me what people
expect the KiCad project to do for free.  It really does nothing to make
me (and I'm guessing other developers as well) want to help them.  It's
a good thing none of these folks work for me because there employment
would be short lived.  Even complex symbols don't take that long to
create so they spent more time typing their arguments on a forum than it
would have taken to just create the symbol.  Where is the sense in that?

> 
> (I hope everyone can read through the facetiousness here.)
> 
> Party on, Wayne
> 
> -a
>