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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm okay with that if the rest of the core team is also :-) Sometimes you
have to break workflows to move forward and make things easier for new
users.

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 9:08 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Jon,
>
> I don't have any issues with this although you may get some push back
> from some users who are resistant to change.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 3/19/2019 9:37 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > One of the things I want to clean up in the UX after the bus /
> > connectivity upgrades I've done are merged is to remove Bus-Bus Entries
> > from the design toolset.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > 1) They aren't actually useful or meaningful (they are just graphical at
> > this point). If you want to branch off bus wires from each other, just
> > use junctions like normal wires.
> >
> > 2) They are confusing. I've heard this from several users, because they
> > look and sound a lot like Bus-Wire Entries, which are useful.
> >
> > What about old designs?
> >
> > My proposal is to just remove the tools to allow placement of new
> > Bus-Bus Entries without removing the underlying code to handle them.
> > Existing designs would still load and render properly.
> >
> > In theory we could make some kind of migration to remove them and
> > replace with direct bus wire connections, but I'm not sure that's
> > necessary.
> >
> > As long as we do a good job of documenting the way to use busses under
> > the new system, and update the example schematics accordingly, I think
> > new users will be set on the right path. We could include a note about
> > this on the blog / forums to let existing users know (although from what
> > I can tell, only a small fraction of existing users use them in the
> > first place).
> >
> > Any concerns with this?
> >
> > Jon
> >
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