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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, that explains my question mark case. That's insane.

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 01:08:11PM -0600, José Ignacio wrote:
> One big problem is that even if everything fails, the project will show up
> fine with all symbols, but they wont have the remap done. at the same time
> the remapper deletes all library entries from the project file, which
> causes it to open with question marks only if you reopen it again after
> saving. It should show the question marks before then or make better use of
> the cache.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
> 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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