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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is something I'm very interested in fixing, and I think we can fix it
without a huge amount of work, but I have too much work before the stable
release to work on it now.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Vesa Solonen <vesa.solonen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 29/04/15 15:37, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> > On 4/27/2015 6:56 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>
> >> How are users supposed to know what footprints are available in each
> >> library?  Are we expecting users to open libraries in a text editor?
> >> Should they add each one, one by one, and then see if they have
> >> footprints they need for the design, and then remove them if they don't
> >> need them?
> >
> > This is a catch-22.  If you add all of the component libraries to
> > kicad.pro, the new users will know which libraries exist but power users
> > will bite your head off because they only want the libraries they need
>
> Essentially this means that the library system must make metadata of the
> contents available for browsing/searching before actually loading the
> whole implementation data.
>
> Like an index of the book ;)
>
> Some way of extracting the library information for machine use in an
> intermediate (binary) repesentation and caching that may speed up as
> well. Parsing loads of ASCII for every startup is not sustainable for
> complex designs. The intermediate format could be just a runtime memory
> image with some checksumming or encryption to avoid nasties.
>
> -Vesa
>
>
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