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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am not sure exactly what kind of annotation stuff you are working
on, but there is another guy working on some geographical annotation.
See https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/108

On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 19:07, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi James,
>
> By "breaking" changes, I'm assuming you mean changes yet to come and not
> broken changes which is something all together different.  I don't
> foresee any changes that would significantly impact the annotation code
> if any at all so you are probably safe to work on it.  I highly
> recommend that write up a simple proposal either on your GitLab instance
> or something like Google docs so that the lead dev team can comment.
> This helps to prevent you from wasting your time by implementing
> something that get rejected by the dev team.
>
> I am surprised you think the annotation code looks deceptively simple.
> I'm still trying to wrap my head around all of the potential sheet path
> issues and I've written and/or refactored most of that code.  I don't
> think anyone has gotten this right the first time including myself.
>
> All that being said, I think most users would find more advanced
> annotation options useful so I would be in favor of it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 5/12/20 12:36 PM, James Jackson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm starting to dig through the code to understand how to implement a
> > new annotation scheme (all looks deceptively simple in terms of object
> > manipulation... there will be a crocodile hiding there somewhere I'm
> > sure!). However, I've noted in a few bug reports and new feature
> > requests that there are likely to be significant changes to eeschema
> > moving towards v6 (last reference I saw was in relation to vector and
> > group busses). So, is it wise to start looking at a significant feature
> > now (if the big changes have happened already), or wait until those
> > changes are made, or is this not actually an issue? Just trying to avoid
> > wasting effort and then have to re-duplicate it later!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > James.
> >
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