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[José Eduardo S. C. Xavier <josescxavier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why https://github.com/KiCad/Capacitors.pretty have been removed from the
main repo?


2014-07-17 14:44 GMT+01:00 Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On 07/17/2014 06:03 AM, José Eduardo S. C. Xavier wrote:
> > Hi again,
> > I'm getting again this error
> >
> >     Errors were encountered loading footprints
> >     IO_ERROR: https GET command failed
> >     Cannot get/download Zip archive:
> >     'https://codeload.github.com/KiCad/Capacitors.pretty/zip/master'
> >     for library path: 'https://github.com/KiCad/Capacitors.pretty'.
> >     Reason: 'Not found'
> >     from
> /home/ze/Development/kicad_sources/kicad.bzr/pcbnew/github/github_plugin.cpp
> :
> >     remote_get_zip() : line 548
> >     IO_ERROR: https GET command failed
> >     Cannot get/download Zip archive: '
> https://codeload.github.com/KiCad/Iut.pretty/zip/master'
> >     for library path: 'https://github.com/KiCad/Iut.pretty'.
> >     Reason: 'Not found'
> >     from
> /home/ze/Development/kicad_sources/kicad.bzr/pcbnew/github/github_plugin.cpp
> :
> >     remote_get_zip() : line 548
> >
> >
> >
> > 2014-03-04 15:35 GMT+00:00 José Eduardo S. C. Xavier <
> josescxavier@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:josescxavier@xxxxxxxxxxx>>:
> >
> >     Thank you for the explanation :)
> >
> >
> >     2014-03-04 14:22 GMT+00:00 Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>>:
> >
> >         OK, last thoughts.
> >
> >         What about having a very reduced number of libraries in the
> global table, but ones you
> >         know you need on every project.
>
>
> Carl does us all good by maintaining a full one here:
>
>
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KiCad/kicad-library/master/template/fp-lib-table.for-github
>
> <bookmark that>
>
>
> But of course you do not need to use his, you can use an abbreviated one
> for speed
> purposes, as said some time ago.
>
>
>
> >
> >
> >         Then, in one dummy project, you have all the libraries known to
> man in the project
> >         specific table.  This means its big and slow, but you don't work
> there.  It is
> >         only used
> >         for library browsing.
> >
> >         You have this dummy project so you can copy rows from the dummy
> project's project
> >         specific
> >         table, to other projects' project specific tables.  You can
> simply click on a row,
> >         and do
> >         ctrl-C or right mouse click and do copy.
> >
> >         Then simply create a blank row in the recipient table, and do
> ctrl-V or right
> >         click paste.
> >
> >
> >         I have not tried this, but it seems workable and I will be doing
> so soon.
> >
> >
> >         Dick
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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