I have done a search on “through hole” components… like… resistors, capacitors… and all I find are old posts (several years old!!) … complaining that the standard libraries have “next to no” through hole parts. The only answers that I can see tend to circle around “you can create them easily”.
First, “easily” depends on who you are. I went to look at the procedure and to me it seems wildly complicated. Multiple pages, multiple elements… it just seems daunting ESPECIALLY when you are having to create things that are “standard parts” and should already be there.
Second, since these posts are old … and the problem exists… I guess that is a sign that they are never going to be fixed and made part of the actual product.
Do you know how many “standard parts” exist on this planet? Probably thousands. Do you know how long it takes to create them all? Thousands of hours. Does anybody pay for that effort? Not really, it’s an open-source projects driven by volunteers. Would you work thousands of hours for free?
From user perspective it’s easy to complain about missing parts. You only see the 10 parts you are missing and think it would be so easy for someone to create those 10 parts. But from our perspective, not 10 parts are missing but thousands. So it will take many many many years until everyone has his 10 parts ready for use.
Did you ever do this procedure with another EDA tool?
That’s not true. Hundreds of parts have been added during the last years. Also in the mean time an Eagle import has been implemented, so you can now just import whole Eagle libraries if you like. But yes, priority is currently on application development as there’s a lot of work to do as well.
Good things take time. And with limited money, it takes longer.
Then we can try to priorize them.