Hi guys I joined this mailing list nearly a half year ago, just for interest, but this time I have a question to further development, so I come with it. Because this is my first mail here, let me introduce myself:
At first I have to say, that I have no practical experience with KiCAD. I'm working with Altium (and, sorry, love that) with a lot experience for this tool also as beta test group member. But as I'm always interested at more green gras, I often joined some tool discussions to keep an oversight what other tools can do. So even if I never designed a board with KiCAD, I was always inquisitive about KiCAD and its capabilities. Last years, Altium develops its product into a direction which comes with a bad smell, and so I discuss often with my boss about to move to KiCAD. I know that KiCAD is also used in some companies with success. As far I know, KiCAD has no support for multiboard projects. I looked out for something like a road map and found something on gitlab, but maybe outdated. Last edit was 2020. So I would like to know, what KiCAD devs think about multiboard projects. Are they on track for KiCAD development, was this already discussed? Or will this overload development capacities? I have, unfortunately, absolutly no experience in C++ (but have in C, even if I hate C, and in Java, OOP is known to me). And I did some multiboard designs, so I think I could at least contribute some experience. (Unfortunately, Altium supports multiboard projects, but in a poorly way, it could be much more powerfull.) The same I wrote for multiboard projects I could repeat for pcb variation support, but I better do not and just mentioned it. I'm looking forward for your answers. Greetings from germany Oliver -- Das Nötige ist einfach und das Komplizierte unnötig -Michail Kalaschnikow As a german, please let me tell you: Germans are not rude. If you invite a german to have lunch with you and he says simply 'No', be assured that he means: «I'm so glad that you ask me to spend lunch time with you, I'm sure it would be a great time, but unfortunately, I'm deeply sorry for that, I have a meeting with my boss and a few minutes later, I promised our most important customer a call. And moreover, I'm a little embarassed for that, I feel a bit sick today, maybe I'm not a good lunch companion today. But I really hope so that we can share this great time another time.» The reason for this kind of highly efficient conversation, which is typical for germans, is quite simple: He knows that you are probably very busy with highly important business, and it is a special kind of German courtesy not to want to waste your precious time. So please, don't misunderstand short and precise communication as rowdyness. -- 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/f485bef0-c840-41b8-88eb-c0155d6bed3c%40gmx.de.
