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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/30/2013 11:34 AM, Carl Poirier wrote:
> I'll do it.
> 
> Where does the number 25 come from? If it's just a number off the top of your head, I'll
> do some resolution tests and see what looks good for say a minimum of 1280px width.
> (Netbooks will excuse me)

IMO if a KiCad user is not using a dual monitor for design, then his employer is
under-valuing his time.  Employer is customer or boss or self.  This opinion extends well
beyond netbooks being inadequate.


25 is arbitrary (arbitrarily short).


You need commit rights to library repo or already have them?  I will implement the CMake
uninstall feature for the libraries, so the old ones can be yanked in our linux script
before installing the new ones.  Or by anyone else using cmake for installation.

Fortunately footprint names are not changing, and footprints which are already in BOARDs
are obviously not affected.  Schematic part libraries are not affected, 3D libraries are
not affected.  Only footprint library names, and for a user using fp_lib_table support, he
will be given your shiny fp-lib-table to ease the transition.

I don't know how to make improvements without change.

Any objections?

Dick







> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     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?
> 
>     --
>     Lorenzo Marcantonio
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