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Message #31818
Re: Recent eeschema changes
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From:
Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>
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Date:
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 13:59:20 +0100
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On 11/22/2017 01:56 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
[snip]
> No it didn't. You were just lucky. IMO, the symbol cache library has
> always been a disaster waiting to happen and it masked a lot of issues
> with broken and modified symbol libraries. Your desire to have a single
> symbol footprint link is not shared by all. Many users like the idea of
> being able modify symbols in place like you can with footprints. There
> are many times I would like to tweak pin positions in symbols to make
> schematics cleaner without having to have multiple variants of the same
> symbol in my libraries.
It is also a prerequisite for pin swapping that we plan to implement at
one point.
Cheers,
Orson
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