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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe this could be implemented for the stable release.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Sounds professional.
>
> Bob G
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> On 04/24/2015 12:24 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>
> 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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