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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe embedded symbols is part of the file format / library format
change heading.

Back-annotation support in general is under the heading of "Pin and Part
Swapping" in the roadmap, and it's a good idea to include re-annotating
components as part of that.

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 1:11 PM, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Mar 5, 2018, at 10:57 AM, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> Since my day job involves a lot of engineering planning/timelines/etc,
> I've had this rolling around in my head...
> I started brainstorming some proposed changes to the roadmaps.
>
> I am using Google drive because that's what is easiest for me to play
> with; I'm happy to send patches against the official roadmaps if get some
> buy-in for this.
>
> Feel free to comment (either directly on the doc or by email) with
> thoughts on this.
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mpxqvxLv497cyfk8KTQijhySSpFxF
> 7ooTtcT_HU86kw/edit#
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> Basically what I am proposing is to put most of the energy into Eeschema
> for 6.0, with changes to other parts of the software basically being
> "whatever people have time left over for".  Everything else has been bumped
> to 7.0
>
>
> I’m not sure where it fits into the roadmap, but the main EESchema feature
> I’d like to see implemented is the embedding of schematic symbols into the
> schematic sheet, in the same way that footprints are part of the kicad_pcb
> file.
>
> Also the whole idea of renumbering the reference designators in a layout
> to be geographical, and then backannotating the designators to the
> schematic. (A guy can dream ..)
> -a
>
>
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