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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:31:05AM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> a) *Nicknames*: revise the template/fp-lib-table file wrt nicknames:
>   i) no longer than 25 characters
>   ii) adopt a consistent choice of capitalization

I think that's a good idea (altough it's more for the library people)...
it's one little ugliness in the eeschema field, too. However I don't
think that 25 should be an hard enforced limit, a guideline should be
enough.

> b) shorten the name of *Library Path* entries, this means renaming most footprint
> libraries in the bzr repo to remove any reference to date or revision and to remove any
> inclusion of part names.

Same as above :D

> c) add the previously existing references to part names which were in the library names,
> into the "Description" column of the fp-lib-table if the author so desires.

Also: do we really need so many fine-grained libraries, especially with the
pretty format?

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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