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[Werner Almesberger <werner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> a) the "personal libraries", and hopefully in the future
> b) the "project specific" library, i.e. the schematic specific "parts list".

Just curious: why do you consider project specific libraries to be
"in the future" ? I use them and see others use them all the time,
and things seem to work rather nicely. 

"Project" here means things like gta02-core [1], Xue [2], etc. I.e.,
projects where several people work together and use KiCad on top of
a revision control system (SVN and git in these cases).

[1] http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/gta02-core/
[2] http://projects.qi-hardware.com/index.php/p/xue/

Regarding the library format, I'd also prefer values tagged with
names. These files aren't really human-readable anyway, so it
doesn't matter much if, say, a text diff is more or less compact,
and the tags make it easier to build parsers. CPU cycles are cheap,
too :-)

Something that I think will be important is to have a consistent
and stable arrangement of whitespace, so that also "quick hack"
parsers that don't parse the full sexprs but instead look for
certain patterns won't break too often.

- Werner