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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Franck,

That is a feature request and belongs in the issue tracker for
consideration of 7.0.

This is purely about 6.0.1 which is bug fixes only. We do not add any new
features in 6.0 as per the rules.



On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 5:18 AM Franck Bourdonnec <fbourdonnec@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a simple one.
>
> Choosing some symbol is sometimes very difficult because it is long list
> , very long list of the same thing with just pin count varying for example.
>
> In a future version, KiCad may address that by only displaying a single
> line for the symbol, same as a regular expression.
>
> Example:
>
> Pinheader[01,02]_[02..64]_[H,V]_2.00
> Pinheader[01,02]_[02..64]_[H,V]_2.54
> and expand that on demand.
>
>
>
> These are all generated by scripts.
>
> It is easy for each script to insert a field saying simply how it was
> developped and thus how KiCad can factorise all the serie
>
> Just reserve a keyword in the parsers so that any v6 can read without
> complaining.
>
> (property "CompactedFamily" )    <= not happy
> (property "CompactedFamily" none)
> (property "CompactedFamily" [01,02]_[02..64]_[H,V]_2.54mm )
>
> Same for footprints
>
> Franck
>
> Le 06/01/2022 à 23:43, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
> > Just a quick heads up to all library, package, documentation, and
> > translation developers, barring any unexpected critical bugs I will be
> > tagging stable release version 6.0.1 late on Tuesday, January 11 (EST)
> > for official release on January 15th.  If you have anything you want to
> > push before 6.0.1, now would be a good time.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Wayne
> >
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Mark