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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/14/2018 3:20 PM, Andy Peters wrote:
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> 
>> On Jan 13, 2018, at 7:16 PM, Dan Weatherill <dan.weatherill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>> apologies first for the (unrelated to 5.0 stable) spam.
>>
>> I have been working for a while on a back-annotation tool for kicad. It is 
>> finally in a shape where I feel it's worth letting others look at it and 
>> getting some feedback. You can find it here:
>>
>> https://github.com/weatherhead99/kicad_backannotate
>>
>> Any issues or comments very welcome! 
>> I hope to work on getting something like this into kicad itself in the longer 
>> term.
> 
> I will test this soon!
> 
> IMHO this functionality should be part of Kicad, not an external tool. 
> 
> -a

It's on the v6 road map and will eventually be part of KiCad.  If users
want to use an external tool to do this, that's fine but it's not
something that I would include in KiCad.