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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/6/2018 6:14 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> Hi Rene-
> 
> Am 2018-11-06 16:41, schrieb Rene Pöschl:
>> Sadly we did not come around to fix all symbols before the v5 release.
>> We now seem to have a volunteer who would be prepared to fix these
>> symbols.
>>
>> There is a catch though. Whatever we do to fix this it will break
>> designs that use the old symbols right now.
> 
> Do we need to do this during 5.1?  Or can it simply be done in the v6
> branch of the libraries?
> 
> If we need to do this during 5.1, I guess I'd prefer option 2 for right
> now as that is minimally disruptive.

I agree.  If we push this off to v6 then options 1 and 3 are in play.  I
would probably lean towards option 1 to avoid having multiple libraries
with essentially the same symbols.  The rescue feature should catch any
pin changes although we may want to test a symbol or two before we make
the changes to the library.

> 
> -S
>