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[Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All-

West Coast time here, so takes a bit longer to see these chains.

This wasn't to add a new feature.  This was to support the existing feature
documented at
http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/stable/en/eeschema.html#global-connections-between-buses

-S


On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 8:19 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Thanks for the update.  I will defer this until the version 6
> development is opened.
>
> On 12/20/2017 11:03 AM, Jon Evans wrote:
> > For V5, the color issue would have to be resolved in a different way
> > than I was proposing, since the connectivity information won't be there.
> >
> > I think it might be best to hold off on this patch until after V6
> > development is open since it is not a major bug fix and it would be
> > prudent to do a fair amount of testing that this doesn't impact
> netlisting.
> >
> > -Jon
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     What is the probability that this breaks any existing schematics and
> how
> >     soon could the color issue be resolved?  If the risk of breaking
> >     existing schematics is very low and the color issue can be resolved
> >     reasonably soon, then I would consider merging for the stable 5
> version.
> >      Otherwise, we should hold off until the we open version 6 for
> >     development.
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >
> >     Wayne
> >
> >     On 12/20/2017 8:34 AM, Jon Evans wrote:
> >     > This patch is essential for my connectivity work (but that's not a
> V5
> >     > thing...)
> >     > It would be quite easy for me to implement the color thing as part
> of
> >     > the connectivity changes (since the junction would be able to know
> if it
> >     > was connected to buses or not)
> >     >
> >     > -Jon
> >     >
> >     > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <
> stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> >     > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>>
> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     Seth,
> >     >
> >     >     Technically this is a new feature since KiCad has never used
> junction
> >     >     indicators on buses in the past so I'm hesitant to merge this
> for
> >     >     version 5.  I do like the dragging of buses that this patch
> provides.
> >     >     I'm also thinking that the bus junction color should be the
> same color
> >     >     as the bus color rather than the wire color but that may be
> difficult
> >     >     given our coloring scheme for schematic objects.  Does anyone
> else have
> >     >     any opinions on this patch?
> >     >
> >     >     Cheers,
> >     >
> >     >     Wayne
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >     On 12/14/2017 6:24 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> >     >     > ​The attached patch ​adds junction management to buses in
> addition
> >     >     to wires.
> >     >     >
> >     >     > Of note, this also adds buses to the draggable junctions
> collection.
> >     >     > Now that junctions are managed internally, it makes sense to
> allow any
> >     >     > collection with a junction to allow draggable junctions.
> >     >     >
> >     >     > -Seth
> >     >     >
> >     >     >
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