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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

This sounds like the problem I ran into last week using EESCHEMA. I 
could not get it to recognize a local library. I finally had to go in 
and edit a config file with a text editor to get it to take.


Nice write up here Raúl.

Maybe Jean-Pierre will look at this one.


Thanks,

Dick

> Hello all:
>
> I've tried sending this e-mail, but I was unable till now. BTW, I think it's 
> still fully applicable.
>
> Having being able finally to have a debian package for kicad using cmake 
> thanks to the effort of the Debian Kicad packagers, I've now entered into 
> real testing stage at last.
>
> For the moment I haven't seen much of the new movements in the code that has 
> been certainly numerous these last months, I simply hadn't the time yet. But 
> what I saw is that when I go into the lib selection dialog in eeschema and I 
> don't choose a lib file living in the kicad library path, this library can't 
> be used beacuse the full path isn't used anymore, just the file name.
>
> IMHO, the full patch should be keep (as it used to) when the file is not in 
> the default kicad library path.
>
> The problem seems to be that the path of the file is not taken into account 
> anymore. Going back into svn history, I see that the relevant change happened 
> at r636 by JP Charras, specifically with the patch I'm attaching, whose 
> revertion causes restablishment of the former behaviour which I 
> consider "working"
>
> I couldn't find an explanation or the aim for doing this change on either 
> the commit message or changelog, but it looks like as the EDA_FileSelector 
> function were going to be deprecated. I can see some references to it in 
> other places and according to its name looks like a high-level function 
> (abstraction) that maybe should be continued used unless there's a change in 
> the design concept.
>
> I'm new to the development of this software, so maybe I've lost some 
> details. I would appreciate if someone could shed some light into this issue.
>
> Regards,


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Best Regards,

Dick


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