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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For future things like this, what do people think of a webview that pops up
on startup after checking a site for alerts?
On Apr 24, 2015 12:14 PM, "Carl Poirier" <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> All installations need a local kicad-library, not just OS X. They are all
> in the same situation. The next OS X nightly will be good if you pull the
> latest kicad-libary for the build.
>
> Kerusey Karyu will announce the change on the users group on Yahoo to warn
> people. If anyone has an account and wants to forward my message before he
> does, feel free to do so.
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
>> Hmm.
>>
>> So the OSX builds use Github by default for footprints, and have symbols
>> "baked in" at build time.
>>
>> Every OS X nightly build is going to produce bad boards, and there's no
>> way to tell users to update or inform them about this change through the
>> program at all.
>>
>> I really wish I would have known about this earlier.
>>
>> Adam Wolf
>> Cofounder and Engineer
>> Wayne and Layne
>> On Apr 24, 2015 11:42 AM, "Carl Poirier" <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> This is simply to warn you that all diodes in KiCad's libraries have
>>> seen their pin numbers swapped. This is to be in line with most other
>>> software and the IPC standard as well, which states that cathode should be
>>> pin 1. This work is courtesy of the newest librarian, Ricardo Crudo.
>>>
>>> If you are using Github libraries directly, the only thing you will have
>>> left to do is update your schematic libraries to the latest revision of
>>> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library before continuing your work. If
>>> you have a local copy of the footprint repositories, then when you are
>>> ready you will be able to pull the changes for both the schematic libraries
>>> and the affected footprint libraries:
>>>
>>> 1. Diodes_SMD.pretty <https://github.com/KiCad/Diodes_SMD.pretty>
>>> 2. Diodes_ThroughHole.pretty
>>> <https://github.com/KiCad/Diodes_ThroughHole.pretty>
>>> 3. LEDs.pretty <https://github.com/KiCad/LEDs.pretty>
>>>
>>> Thank you for your understanding and sorry for the inconvenience.
>>>
>>> Carl Poirier
>>>
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