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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/30/2013 10:43 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio 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?



More footprints into fewer categories seems to make sense to me also.

Maybe Carl or someone will step and lead by

cleaning,
screening,
and sorting.

Now and into the future.

If we move the footprints to github, converting them to pretty along the way, then we can
simply delete the bzr ones and have a single point of maintenance.

The time to do that is after everyone is using fp-lib-table support, because that is what
enables the pretty format.  Compiling in GITHUB_PLUGIN is *not* a similar prerequisite,
since a person should be able to download and install our standard libraries locally as
before (but from github.com and in pretty format).

The barriers to users using fp-lib-table support reliabily are mostly gone.  Maybe 3 weeks
and we could make it the default build.

Dick