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[Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick,

The best would be to tune the github plugin to do just that. Access the footprints from git and have them stored locally, so changes would be faster, and user could work when not online.
I thought that it was planned to have that working already (github access with local storage of data).

Just my $0.02,
Jean-Paul
AC9GH

On Nov 3, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Jean-Samuel
> 
> Aha, that makes sense.
> 
> Maybe the following is a bad idea, but anyway -- here goes.
> With that I guess one could even make a script that is cloning and
> updating the kicad footprints from github and chaching them also.
> 
> Nick
> 
> 2014-11-03 18:28 GMT+01:00 Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi Nick,
>> 
>> Sorry I'm not always clear in my explaination...
>> 
>> This plugin provide a gateway to custom plugin writen in python.
>> For example you can write a new plugin in python to fetch some footprint
>> from a database for example...
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Le 03/11/2014 17:37, Nick Østergaard a écrit :
>>> Hi Jean-Samuel
>>> 
>>> What exactly does this do? I guess a section for the documentation has
>>> to be written to describe the purpose or functionality of this option.
>>> 
>>> Does this plugin then run a python script that magically creates the
>>> footprint you have in mind or? Does this provide a gateway to make
>>> some custom plugin to fetch footprints from various sources from a
>>> simple python?
>>> 
>>> Sorry for all the questionmarks, but I don't quite get what exactly
>>> this is. (I have not tried it yet)
>>> 
>>> Nick
>>> 
>>> 2014-11-03 15:14 GMT+01:00 Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> 
>>>> I wrote few months ago an extension to be able to write in python a
>>>> footprint library plugin.
>>>> ie: for the moment for footprint you have to choice between:
>>>> - Kicad
>>>> - Legacy
>>>> - GitHub
>>>> ...
>>>> And I had write a "Python". You choose the python module to load (the
>>>> module name as an option of the python plugin) and this python
>>>> module have to implement some functions to do the job.
>>>> 
>>>> This code is currently under a branch :
>>>> lp:~kicad-developers/kicad/python_plugin
>>>> 
>>>> Specific code is mainly in pcbnew/fppython/ and there is a python
>>>> example in pcbnew/fppython/fppython_example.py.
>>>> 
>>>> I regularly merge with upstream to maintain this branch up to date.
>>>> I cleanned up the code to meet coding standard.
>>>> 
>>>> Is it possible to merge on main branch ?
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> 
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