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[Moses McKnight <moses@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/10/2012 01:15 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 10:26:21PM -0500, Moses McKnight wrote:
> > 3. It seems to me it would make a lot more sense to put the library
> > search paths in the .eeschema preferences file than in the project
> > file.  Do people actually use different paths for library files for
> > projects on the same computer?  For my projects the search paths
>
> Yes, especially with PCB modules. So you can have a library dir with
> 8 mil tech and another one with 6 mil tech.

I guess I still don't understand the reasoning here.  Why can't you have 
8 mil libraries and 6 mil libraries in the same directory?  What's more, 
why can't you have the search path to both in all your projects even if 
you only use one set in a given project?  Surely you haven't named the 
libraries with identical names?

Of course the libraries loaded can be different for each project, but 
that doesn't affect the search path.

Moses