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[Moses McKnight <moses@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I certainly agree about the invisible pins!  What I have done for my symbols is 
to put the power pins on the first unit of a multi-unit component and make them 
visible.

On 07/12/2018 09:04 AM, Rene Pöschl wrote:
> Sadly the old symbols are completely unusable in many modern circuits which use 
> more then one power supply for different parts of the circuit. Hidden power pins 
> are not the way to go! The fix for this bug must come from a different side then 
> reintroducing hidden power pins.
>
> On 12/07/18 13:46, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> > Rene,
> >
> > Bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1781290 may be an issue.  The
> > decision to separate symbol power pins as a separate symbol unit caused
> > this bug.  I didn't think about this when the changes to the symbol
> > libraries where made but it is going to cause issues for anyone trying
> > to create simulations.  I preferred the old symbols but it's not
> > something I feel strongly about but given that these changes caused this
> > issue we may need to rethink this decision or provide alternative
> > symbols for spice simulation.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> > On 7/12/2018 5:36 AM, Rene Pöschl wrote:
> > > The libs should be ready to go. We might still fix some minor things
> > > till the release but we do not have any showstopper topics open.
> > >
> > > On 11/07/18 20:49, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> > > > Are there any critical bugs remaining to be fixed for the stable 5
> > > > release?  I didn't see any thing outstanding but I may have missed
> > > > something while I was on vacation.  I'm going to create a 5.0.0
> > > > milestone for the last few remaining bugs and shoot for a 7/20 tag date
> > > > unless there are any more critical bugs lurking about.  I will also
> > > > create 5.0 and 5.1 branches.  If I tag on 7/20, I would like to make the
> > > > release announcement on 7/27.  Does anyone see any issues with these
> > > > dates
> > > >
> > > > How do stand with our installers?  I saw the macos installer was making
> > > > some nice progress.
> > > >
> > > > Are the doc devs, library devs, and translators (except for the recent
> > > > minor string changes) ready?
> > > >
> > > > Is there anything else I'm missing?  I really would like to make these
> > > > dates.  I have an Olimex TERES laptop kit that I've been dying to play
> > > > around with but I know once I start on that, everything else will get
> > > > pushed to the back burner so I'm not going to start until version 5 is
> > > > released. :)
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Wayne
> > > >
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