PCBWay - seeking help/developers for automating KiCAD data parsing/checking

[Rene_Poschl]

@GyrosGeier

This is a massive problem. When v6 development opens up after the 5.1 release, I expect lots of scripts to break as new features are integrated.

I assume the python interface will not change for bugfix releases of version 5. I doubt pcbway intents to support the nightly releases of kicad.
This would mean that your outlined problem should not affect the topic discussed here.

@GyrosGeier

The way out would be to sit down, design an easy API, write small wrapper classes and generate the Python API from that. It’s on my list, but that is the same list that includes a writable pin table that should be ready in time for the 4.0 release.

@pointhi started something in this direction. Building a proposal for an (official) high level python API