[Pcb-bugs] [Bug 972061] Re: Bulk rename of components

[DJ D. <97...@bu...>]

Our plugin system doesn't have a "well defined API" so plugins are always compiled against a built tree.
As for packaging, that's up to the individual package maintainers, not the core dev team.  They can add a -dev if they want.

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Title:
  Bulk rename of components

Status in PCB: Printed Circuit Board CAD package:
  New

Bug description:
  Often while composing boards with many repeated functional blocks
  (with components named hierachically for convenience), I'll delete the
  components of all but one of the blocks, layout the remaining block,
  and copy this block. This is quite easy as Select By Name support
  regular expressions.

  Unfortunately, after copying the block I still need to rename the
  copied components. While for small blocks I'll often do this by hand,
  for larger blocks I tend to save only the block to a layout, rename
  the components with a regular expression in a text editor, and import
  the modified design. I repeat this as many times as necessary. While
  this works, it's quite ugly and very inefficient.

  However, this task could be very straightforward if pcb had the
  ability to run a regular expression substitution on the names of a
  selection of components. This way you could select a functional block,
  run "s/stepper1/stepper2/" and move on with life. A simple solution to
  a simple problem.

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