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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As far as I know, Github costs a minimum of $5k a year to run on your own
system.  This is part of why I was very confused as to why the Github
plugin was implemented, vs a Git plugin, but I did not think of Windows.

https://enterprise.github.com/

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> > I wonder if you could you set up a local github server on your system
> > (assuming the github server software is freely available) and point the
> > github plugin to 127.0.0.1?
>
> Of course it will work, Simply set KIGITHUB with the local address.
>
> > I know this is problematic, if it actually do perform COW and will not
> sync anymore.
>
> If you set your local repositories with git clone, then it will simply be
> a matter of doing:
>
> for prettyfolder in *
> do
>     cd prettyfolder
>     git pull
>     cd ..
> done
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Aha, I did not know that the COW was working like that. Seems to work
>> fine from the limited testing I just did. I do think that the need for
>> existing dirs that allow_pretty_writing_to_this_dir specify is a bit
>> strange, but I guess it is well thought out. It would become quite
>> tedious to create the handfull of libs (or all) manually.
>>
>> I wonder if there is any posibility or scheme to make it cache by
>> default somewhere. I know this is problematic, if it actually do
>> perform COW and will not sync anymore. I hope I have understood the
>> COW functionality correctly.
>>
>> 2014-11-03 21:56 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > It's called copy on write and it already exits in the github plugin.  No
>> > tuning necessary.  You just need to configure your fp-lib-table to take
>> > advantage of it.  It is well documented the "Using the GitHub Plugin"
>> > section of both the CvPcb and Pcbnew reference manuals.
>> >
>> > On 11/3/2014 3:27 PM, Jean-Paul Louis wrote:
>> >> 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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