LibrePCB: First release candidate
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I stumbled uppon LibrePCB at least a year ago, I can't wait to test it. Currently I am totally hooked on Horizon EDA (see: https://github.com/carrotIndustries/horizon/wiki/Feature-ove...) which has a especially cool library managment IMO. I am curious how LibrePCB changed over that period
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Hi! LibrePCB has some very new concepts, especially for library management. You should take a look at my talk at FOSDEM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu-h5y6tK34 (Slides: https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/cad_librepcb/...)
As these are extremely different to KiCad's concepts, it would be very difficult to contribute that to KiCad because they need to provide backward compatibility. And KiCad already has a lot of legacy code, so it would become even worse when changing very fundamental concepts. It's very questionable if KiCad developers even would accept such fundamental changes - actually I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't agree with some of LibrePCB's concepts. So the only way was to create a completely new project.
And LibrePCB 0.1.0 is only the beginning - I have many more ideas how an EDA tool should look like. With a standalone project I'm much more flexible to implement new features than if every feature would need to be contributed to KiCad.