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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have a slight feeling it should be doing the remap _before_ rescue
instead of after, but I'm at work now so I can't really poke around at
it.

It's stuffing everything up in multiple ways, depending on exactly what
I tell it to do and I'm still not sure what I'm doing wrong. In one
case, it rescues symbols that don't need it, presumably due to trying to
rescue _before_ remapping; I have to go through the schematic and
reassign symbols to the actual library symbol rather than the rescued
one. In the other case, it gives a project that looks like it works, but
clearly some state is messed up because when I save and reopen, it fails
to find the symbols and everything is a question mark.

I'd give you more than that but _I don't understand what it's doing_.
It's really, really opaque.

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 02:05:05PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> You're going to have to give me a bit more than "stuffing everything
> up".  Are the symbols being incorrectly remapped?  Even if the symbol
> library table is empty, the recovery should still be correct as long as
> the cache library is valid.  If as you suggest it's so opaque that users
> cannot understand what is happening (which I find hard to believe given
> that it reports every action required to remap a schematic), I don't
> know how to fix that other than silently remap the schematic and only
> show the dialog when something goes wrong.  I'll take a look at this
> project as soon as I get a chance.
> 
> On 1/2/2018 1:44 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > Keep in mind my problem is not necessarily that things are _broken_ but
> > perhaps that they are so opaque that they only make sense in the mind of
> > the designer. As I said in the previous message, we've been getting TONS
> > of people on IRC who can't figure out how the hell to drive this thing,
> > and I count myself among them. Still takes me like three tries to load
> > an old project without it stuffing everything up.
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 01:40:40PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >> Please send me a sample project if possible.  I have tested this every
> >> which way I can think of and it works fine for everything I throw at it.
> >>  The only time things fall apart are when the cache is corrupted or
> >> missing and/or rescues have be ignored.  In those cases there is nothing
> >> I can do because the proper symbols do not exist anywhere so remapping
> >> is not possible.
> >>
> >> On 1/2/2018 1:33 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> >>> Are we really going to do an RC now without any more work to the remap
> >>> stuff? I just had it ruin another project last night. It behaves very
> >>> poorly when things also have to be rescued or libraries are missing, it
> >>> seems.
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 09:10:20AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >>>> On 1/2/2018 8:58 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> >>>>> On 28/12/17 20:24, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >>>>>> There are a few outstanding crash bugs that need to be fixed before we
> >>>>>> can consider branching the stable 5 release.  Here is the list of
> >>>>>> unresolved crash bugs that effect the development branch:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1562788
> >>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1732274
> >>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1738872
> >>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1738999
> >>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1739614
> >>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1740253
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hey Wayne,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I fixed the remaining 2 bugs yesterday (the STEP import one is a bug in
> >>>>> OCE). Please proceed with the 5.0-rc.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Tom
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Tom,
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks!.  I wont have time to get to this until the weekend.  If there
> >>>> are no additional critical severity bug reports by then, I will create
> >>>> the version 5 branch.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>>
> >>>> Wayne
> >>>>
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