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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/4/2014 6:40 AM, Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote:
> 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) ?

Once one of the lead developers has time to review and approve your
patch, then it can be merged into the product branch of kicad.  I'm not
sure when I'll be able to get to it.  I currently have a backlog of
patches to apply so it probably wont happen until next weekend at the
earliest.

Best Regards,

Wayne

> 
> 
> 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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