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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 12/07/2018 à 16:20, Moses McKnight a écrit :
> 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.

This is an option.
It imply the first unit is in the schematic.
Otherwise (like with a separate and missing power unit) the component is not powered.

> 
> 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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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS