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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the heads up Carl.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 4/30/2015 12:15 PM, Carl Poirier wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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