Hi Jonathan, We don't really do debate about opinions on the list. Or we try not to. It is not productive.
If KiCad doesn't do what you want it to, please submit a wishlist report to the issue tracker. You can access this under the help menu with 'Report a Bug' If other people feel the same way, then they will indicate that on the issue report. I will caution however that if you come into any community and immediately say things like "[this] calls into question whether KiCAD can be considered a serious tool", you are unlikely to get a favorable response. KiCad will work differently from your other EDA experience. Seth On Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 9:57 PM Jonathan Levine < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, folks. My bona fides: I'm not a developer, but a hardware engineer > who's been using > EDA for about 35 years, and before that about 8 years of hand-taped PCBs. > I've been a > Mentor (old version under HP-UX) user for more than 20 years, so that's my > point of > reference. > > On the advice of a trusted friend, I've decided to give V6 a shot, > starting with the reproduction > (including some reverse-engineering) of some old through-hole boards, > which should be a nice, gentle introduction. I dearly love Mentor, but > feel I need to make a serious effort to > modernize and get compatible with the tools an increasing number of people > are now > using. I'm working from poor quality schematics, so that's my starting > point: Redraw > good ones. > > What I encountered today in the course of that schematic entry has really > rattled me, and > calls into question whether KiCAD can be considered a serious tool. > Rather than my > repeating myself here, please take a look at the forum exchange I > initiated tonight. > > https://forum.kicad.info/t/symbol-editing-and-the-netlist/39271 > > I eagerly look foreward to a vigorous debate. > > Jonathan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KiCad Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/b3a0cfcc-f97c-4286-8299-39e0128bdd93n%40kicad.org > <https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/b3a0cfcc-f97c-4286-8299-39e0128bdd93n%40kicad.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CAFdeG-pXGEziJu3UaMtw7rt%2BGbw-nz04zdBdfThGQoWfwBofDA%40mail.gmail.com.
