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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Because it has been split over the other capacitor libraries.


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:59 AM, José Eduardo S. C. Xavier <
josescxavier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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