[sdiy] oh KiCad

[charlie wallace]

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-stable-committers/kicad/stable/changes

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Colin Hinz <lists at meccanion.com> wrote:
>
> I'm getting back into KiCad after a hiatus of a couple of years. Back
> when, I was using a version released in 2007; now, I've installed the
> 2013-07-07 version, apparently the most recent "stable" one. I'm
> unclear what's changed in the intervening six years, as the KiCad
> people don't appear to believe in publishing a revision history.
>
> One apparent change -- which from the user perspective is huge --
> which isn't documented ANYWHERE is the change to the component
> libraries. Anyone here know much about that? I can't even find out
> when the change was implemented, let alone any of the details.
>
> I get that with most open-source projects, the documentation is
> often a bit of an afterthought. But KiCad was on a pretty solid footing
> a few years back, and now it seems that all the docwriters have gone
> away. Sad, this.
>
> (Oh, and don't get me started on the "we aren't doing stable releases
> anymore; we're just going to update the code repository as we feel
> like it" aspect -- have the devs ever used professional EDA software?
> Having a tool that mutates every time you use it seems to be a bug,
> not a feature. But maybe I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who wants to
> focus on the task, and not the tool....)
>
> - Colin
>
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