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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 01:07:33PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 3/23/2015 12:12 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > I like your idea - I proposed it myself, but it was not well received ;)
> > [[snip]]
>
> Please see the discussion here on why this will not work.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1435338
>
> I see no point in replacing one bug with another bug that doesn't fix
> the underlying problem.

Haha, just kidding, I know :)

> Rather than just copy the cache file, rename all of the footprints in
> the copied library with a prefix or suffix, i.e. 74LS00 in the cache
> becomes 74LS00_SCH in the new library.  Then rename all the components
> in the schematic accordingly if the user chooses the new library option.
> This way there will be little chance of conflicting component names and
> the library search order is less likely to be an issue.  This gives you
> the best of both worlds.  You keep your existing components in the
> schematic and you can still use the updated components from the your
> libraries if you so choose.  Obviously this still wont fix the library
> search ordering issue but it would be a more robust solution.

Actually, I quite like this idea.