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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry I pushed this button ;)

I totally agree with all of this, I can't believe they've spent over a week
on this issue.

On 10 May 2017 04:34, "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> >
>
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