I am not sure exactly what kind of annotation stuff you are working on, but there is another guy working on some geographical annotation. See https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/108
On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 19:07, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi James, > > By "breaking" changes, I'm assuming you mean changes yet to come and not > broken changes which is something all together different. I don't > foresee any changes that would significantly impact the annotation code > if any at all so you are probably safe to work on it. I highly > recommend that write up a simple proposal either on your GitLab instance > or something like Google docs so that the lead dev team can comment. > This helps to prevent you from wasting your time by implementing > something that get rejected by the dev team. > > I am surprised you think the annotation code looks deceptively simple. > I'm still trying to wrap my head around all of the potential sheet path > issues and I've written and/or refactored most of that code. I don't > think anyone has gotten this right the first time including myself. > > All that being said, I think most users would find more advanced > annotation options useful so I would be in favor of it. > > Cheers, > > Wayne > > On 5/12/20 12:36 PM, James Jackson wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm starting to dig through the code to understand how to implement a > > new annotation scheme (all looks deceptively simple in terms of object > > manipulation... there will be a crocodile hiding there somewhere I'm > > sure!). However, I've noted in a few bug reports and new feature > > requests that there are likely to be significant changes to eeschema > > moving towards v6 (last reference I saw was in relation to vector and > > group busses). So, is it wise to start looking at a significant feature > > now (if the big changes have happened already), or wait until those > > changes are made, or is this not actually an issue? Just trying to avoid > > wasting effort and then have to re-duplicate it later! > > > > Thanks, > > James. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp