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 ;)
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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.
