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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm guessing that we could do something along these lines but would it
be worth the effort?  I'm guessing (hoping) that in the future we wont
be removing too many footprint libraries only adding new ones.

On 12/28/2015 9:25 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Could it be possible in the future to develop something that allows
> users to "subscribe" to a set of libraries? fp-lib-table then wouldn't
> contain each individual library, it'd contain (e.g.) a reference to a
> remote nested fp-lib-table that itself refers to the individual libs.
> That way we could actually update the library set cleanly?
> 
> On Dec 28, 2015 09:19, "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     The reason it does not replace your existing fp-lib-table is it would
>     overwrite any changes that you made to it which would result in a lot of
>     unhappy users (me included).  We could use a merge tool to update
>     fp-lib-tabe but I think this would be more effort than what it's worth.
>      Filing a bug report isn't necessary since it's technically not a bug.
>     We should have done a better job of letting users know that we were
>     going to remove footprint libraries from github so there wouldn't have
>     been any surprises.  In the future we need to do a better job of letting
>     users know about footprint library removals and additions.  Announcing
>     this only on the dev mailing list is not adequate.  We should also make
>     announcements on the users mailing lists and forums.
> 
>     On 12/28/2015 8:49 AM, Dan Walmsley wrote:
>     > Ok
>     >
>     >    I have to replace my AppData\Roaming\Kicad\fp-lib-table file with:
>     >
>     >
>     https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KiCad/kicad-library/master/template/fp-lib-table.for-github
>     > it seems the installer must not be updating this file when Iv
>     moved from
>     > old versions?
>     >
>     > After doing this I am able to access all libraries.
>     >
>     > Shall I file a bug on launch pad?
>     >
>     > Thanks
>     >
>     > Dan
>     >
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>     > From: dan@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>     > To: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     > Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:21:25 +0000
>     > Subject: [Kicad-developers] Error updating standard Kicad footprint
>     > libraries from Github
>     >
>     > Can I draw your attention to this post on the forum:
>     >
>     > https://forum.kicad.info/t/github-footprints-problem/1935/4
>     >
>     > I have been having this problem over a week now on the Stable 4.0.1
>     > build, I can get around it be using Cvpcb to assign footprints.
>     >
>     > But it prevents footprint assignment from eeschema.
>     >
>     > Let me know if I can give further assistance debugging.
>     >
>     > Dan
>     >
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