Jean-Paul, I don't think anyone has complained on this list about the change happening--neither I nor Garth have. No one has proposed rolling it back.
The complaint isn't that diodes now fit a standard--that's better than before! The issue is that there is now mismatch between live footprints and user's installed schematic symbols, and there isn't a good way to communicate this to our users. How many users follow the user mailing list? Under 1%? Under 0.1%? While posting on the users lists is necessary, it is not sufficient! There are relatively simple technical solutions to communicate these changes to users, and for some reason (certainly not for my blood pressure) I'm volunteering to spend even more time on this project. Adam Wolf Cofounder and Engineer Wayne and Layne, LLC On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Jean-Paul Louis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adam, > > I do not see why the change in the library to make it compatible with > other CAD packages, and IPC standards is a bad thing. > Since the beginning, I always used my own library for diodes because they > were broken in the KiCad library. > At least now, I will be able to use the "standard” library. > > People who are complaining are just whiners. Everybody in the Pro world > use pin 1 as the cathode of a diode. Our libraries were backward god knows > why. > We should thank the person who took the pain to fix it, instead of whining. > > Just my $0.02, > Jean-Paul > AC9GH > > > On Apr 24, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Adam Wolf <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > Git has tags and branches and a bunch of features to stop issues like > this from happening. > > > > One easy way I think we can stop this from ever happening again: > instead of always running off the newest commits to master, the github > plugin could use a tag or a commit, and then when folks decide to update, > we can parse and tell them what libraries changed and how, through metadata > and commit messages, and they can choose when to update. > > > > This would stop changes in footprints from breaking users' boards due to > static library files. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Adam Wolf > > Cofounder and Engineer > > Wayne and Layne, LLC > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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