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On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 6:14 AM,  <gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> after the release of pcb-rnd today, I am pondering what to do next. I have a
> list of features I would sooner or later implement. I have my own idea about
> their priority, but I am really interested to see what PCB users think of
> them.
>
> Below is a list of the features. In curly brackets I placed my estimation of
> the relative effort - the larger the feature is, the slower I get anything
> visible/usable done.
>
> Everyone is invited to vote in email (either in private or on the list).
> Even if you are not a pcb-rnd or pcb or geda user. Everyone has 3 tokens to
> spend; reply to the mail and write "token" right under the feature you
> support. You can spend 2 or even all 3 tokens on a single feature if you
> find that important. Spending more than 3 tokens disqualifies your mail. A
> new mail from the same person overwrites their previous tokens.
>
> I will count the tokens next wednesday morning (CET). If there's enough
> voters and strong bias in votes, the outcome will have a direct effect on my
> priorities.
>
>
> 1. {large} merge pcb-gpmi in pcb-rnd: scripting within pcb, using
>    10 different languages (includes python, perl, awk, lua and guile)
>    Languages (and the dependencies they mean) are all optional.

I am unsure what this work really be. I like DJ's idea of a command
interface but I am reserving my remaining token for 7.

> 2. {large} resurrect the win32 port - only if there are volunteer windows
>    testers
>
>
> 3. {small} UI: drill adjust: set drill and/or ring to current style
>    individually or all pins on a component
>
>
> 3. {small} UI: trace length calculation and display

Token

> 4. {small} UI: be able to manually change text line width
>
>
> 5. {small} UI: component dialog: filter by component tags, not only
>    by name
>
>
> 6. {medium?} CORE: clear poly should be a per layer flag (on each objects);
>    so that a line can clear poly on solder-gnd but join solder-pwr

Token

> 7. {medium?} CORE: optional inverse silk or copper text: draw a fill
>    rect around the text and make the text a cutout of this fill rect.

Token

> 8. {small} BUILD: menuconfig and a config file for scconfig
>
>
> 9. {medium} HID: resurrect the lesstif HID (pcb-rnd supports gtk at the
> moment)
>
> TIA,
>
> Igor2



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