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Re: Footprint python plugin: Is it possible to merge ?

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From: Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 08:44:59 -0500
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Interesting.  One of the most popular free software hosting platforms is
not free software?  Am I missing something?

On 11/3/2014 5:51 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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References

Footprint python plugin: Is it possible to merge ?
From: Jean-Samuel Reynaud, 2014-11-03
Re: Footprint python plugin: Is it possible to merge ?
From: Nick Østergaard, 2014-11-03
Re: Footprint python plugin: Is it possible to merge ?
From: Jean-Paul Louis, 2014-11-03
Re: Footprint python plugin: Is it possible to merge ?
From: Wayne Stambaugh, 2014-11-03
Re: Footprint python plugin: Is it possible to merge ?
From: Nick Østergaard, 2014-11-03
Re: Footprint python plugin: Is it possible to merge ?
From: Carl Poirier, 2014-11-03
Re: Footprint python plugin: Is it possible to merge ?
From: Adam Wolf, 2014-11-03