Comment 14 for bug 581153

On 05/15/2013 01:28 AM, jean-pierre charras wrote:
> Le 15/05/2013 08:10, Lorenzo Marcantonio a écrit :
>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 05:48:39PM -0000, jean-pierre charras wrote:
>>> It works for me. But without any reference to kicad version, a bug
>>> report is useless.
>>
>> Wasn't also the internal BOMmer deprecated in favour of the python ones?
>>
> It will be, however I need to rewrite the BOM dialog, in order to have
> an easy to use BOM python scripts.

We agreed to do that after the last release. The release was made.

Here is an easier to use dialog:

https://answers.launchpad.net/kicad/+faq/2265

The BOM dialog must be configurable, and I don't know how it can be any easier to use
without losing configurability.

No assumptions can be made about whether python or xsltproc is to be used. Either must be
usable. So I don't see any easier way. We've both invested time in the eeschema.pdf file
showing how this is done.

That is good enough in my opinion. I removed the BOM dialog this morning, per prior
agreement, and replaced it with a pointer to the FAQ above. This should hold us until
something easier to use is available. But any external tool must be supported in order to
qualify as easier to use.