[sdiy] oh KiCad

[Colin Hinz]

Yes, I know about that. However, a developer's changelog doesn't
convey the sorts of information that's required by the user. For
example, compare what you've linked with, say, Irfanview's change
history:

http://www.irfanview.com/history_old.htm

- Colin

On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, charlie wallace wrote:

> 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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