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

HI folks,

This is just to let you know the splitting and removal of the special.lib
happened minutes ago. Only a handful of parts have been updated in the
process and there should be no synchronization problem between it and the
footprint libraries.

Have a great day,

Carl

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Kerusey Karyu <keruseykaryu@xxxxx> wrote:

>
> Hi everyone.
>
> Let me express few words about changes in the symbol libraries.
>
> At the moment there are no major changes in the naming of the
> current symbol library files. Together with GitHub users we added
> and we are planning to add a few new ones.
>
> One library is provided for the liquidation in near future from the
> current library set: 'special.lib', as it has become a kind of garbage
> dump (IMO). The discussion is here:
> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/issues/153
>
> Last year, only one library has been removed: 'microchip1.lib', as
> I remember.
>
>
> The biggest changes are taking place within the existing libraries.
> The establishment of strict rules written in the KiCad Library
> Convention document forces far-reaching changes in symbols
> including also those in existing libraries. Refresh the older
> schematics will unfortunately be *necessary*. Many existing symbols
> were drawn without any rules. That's why they look the way they do.
>
>
> We realize that such changes will be immediately negative commented
> and might be refused by users, but unfortunately we have no choice.
> Along with the improvement of the quality of KiCad as an EDA Tool
> we have to go to improve the quality of libraries contained therein.
>
>
> Best Regards
> Kerusey Karyu
>
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