kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adam

I would really like to see some caching here, but my skillset in that
way it not that well matched.

What I currently do myself, is that I have created a package script
based on the library-repos-install.sh method and uploaded on the AUR
(archlinux) which just installs the footprints locally, then I can
just reinstall that package to update.

Nick

2014-11-03 21:43 GMT+01:00 Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Nick,
>
> Before we get too far down that path, I think there is a better set of tools
> for caching Github results locally--git.
>
> I work relatively often from airplanes or countries with poor internet
> access, so I use scripts to copy stuff locally.
>
> To be completely honest, I have been confused as to why Dick went straight
> for a particular Git host's API, as compared to using Git itself.  Disk
> space, maybe?  I am one of the users (like Bernhard, I guess) who doesn't
> really like using the Github plugin, and uses data on disk instead.  Git
> provides a way for me to quickly download the new work Carl and the other
> library folks have done.
>
> If someone wants to talk about this more, I'm up for it.
>
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer
> W&L
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:25 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,
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> _______________________________________________
>> >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
>> >>> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
>> >>> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>> >
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
>> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
>> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>
>