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[Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Anyway, this gateway plugin for custom plugin writen in python is ready
(for me).
So my initial question is about the possibility to integrate it in main
branch (merge) ?


Le 03/11/2014 22:19, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
> On 11/3/2014 4:09 PM, Blair Bonnett wrote:
>> On 4 November 2014 09:43, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> I'm with you on this -- I love GitHub, but it would also be nice to use
>> local Git repositories, e.g., for a set of common components that are
>> stocked in our department and for which the footprints have been
>> checked. Offline support via caching would also be good -- I'll admit I
>> haven't played with the copy-on-write option Wayne mentions, but from
>> the manual it sounds like it only saves local copies of footprints you
>> edit rather than the whole library.
>>
>> To this end, some time ago I was playing around with writing a basic Git
>> plugin working using libgit2 [1] to interface with the repository i.e.,
>> no external git executable required. At that stage I only had
>> authentication-less HTTP cloning working, but libgit2 supports basic
>> username + password and SSH authentication. Further down the track it
>> could also support writing changes back to a repository.
> I'm not opposed to adding a git plugin to Pcbnew.  It would make git a
> dependency which can be problematic on Windows.  Most of the windows git
> builds I have seen require msys which uses Posix like paths which could
> be a problem.  You may have to translate paths on windows to make this
> work correctly unless you can find a native version of git.
>
> 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?  It might be an interesting experiment.
>
>> Its currently got a couple of bugs in it and is based against a rather
>> old version of KiCad. I'll have a crack at rebasing and fixing those
>> bugs soon -- I might get a chance tonight otherwise it may have to be
>> the weekend -- and posting it here for others to try out. 
>>
>> Blair
>>
>> [1] https://libgit2.github.com/
>>
>>
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