Maybe, you can make them publishing it with the same argument M$ was forced to standardize and document their complicated XML file format.
Libreoffice / Openoffice has a good well documented format which made it first through the standard bodies.
So if you play config management the hard way you want to be able to generate the artefacts from source files even when the tool vendor does not supply the tool anymore. With well documented data formats, one at least in theory is able to throw money at the problem and to hire people to code a converter tool to be able to import old designs.
If a party really insists on file documentation or otherwhise would not buy 42 seats of the tool, I guess the vendor would move.
ā¦ and realize, that I can count on my fingers up to 32 on just one hand. So, is the guy in the image actually trying to inform the viewer that the correct number is ā4ā?
I think you confused āmost significant bit (MSB) firstā/āleast significant bit (LSB) firstā with big endian/little endian.
The former defines the bitorder in a stream of bits. The later defines the byte order in a stream of bytes. (big endian can have both MSB or LSB first ordering so does little endian.)
@Sprig, @Rene_Poschl, @SembazuruCDE ;
When I laughed at these last 6 posts, my wife wandered over to see what was so funny. She barely comprehended the humor even after I explained it. (She DOES recall the word āpalindromeā from when we played around with them a couple decades ago.) It mostly reinforced her belief that āEngineers make rather decent husbands, but you donāt want to be caught dead with one at a party.ā.
Dragging this thread back to subject, several of us have bugs fixed and closed in the 5.1 branch, so it would be good to have a snapshot available to test before official 5.1.1 release.
For those interested I created a 5.1 nightly build pkg script for winbuilder (actually, I modified an existing one), that uses the 5.1 branch, but uses the symbols, footprints etc from 5.1.0.
@jsreynaud
Could a nightly V5.x.x be possible for Ubuntu?
I love helping with testing, but since I use kicad mainly for work I prefer to be able to fallback to stable
Juet to understand. You want to be able to run in same time 5.1.1 (stable) and 5.1 dev branch in the same time ?
Currently itās possible to run 5.1.1 (stable) and master (main dev branch) in the same timeā¦
5.1 series is developed (partly) independently from the master (which leads to 6.0). It might be useful to have the 5.1 development branch which has bugfixes but isnāt released yet as 5.1.x. The developers have also discussed of the possibility to have more testing for some bugfixes. Right now some fixes may be undertested when they are released.
I can see I might have phrased it bad. I woud love the possibility to have v5.1.1 (stable), v5.1 branch (for testing bugfixes before they make it to stable) and v6 dev (nightly) all installed at the same time
(Or maybe I doā¦) 
perhaps even V5 stable, V5 dev and nightly