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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 12/07/2018 à 16:04, Rene Pöschl a écrit :
> 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.

These pins can be visible instead of hidden, just visible power and common to all units.


> 
> 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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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS