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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/18/2016 11:56 AM, Andy Peters wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2016, at 8:32 AM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I still think setting up a local server is a massively hackish "solution", and there's a difference between a user suggesting this to another user, and a developer (in fact, the one who created the need to do this) suggesting it. Personally, I don't think it's a good look for the project. Perhaps "stupid" was a bit much, though I am led to believe that the person who suggested it has not met the average PCB designer and KiCad user. They're not system/network admin types. :P
> 
> Can I throw in a little bit of user insight?
> 
> Our full-time PCB guy is on the other side of a low wall from my desk. I asked him, “Should PCB libraries be in a git repository?”
> 
> Succinct, and I think relevant, answer: “What’s a git repository?"

Exactly!  Even my suggestion is beyond the technical skills of your
typical PCB layout person.  However, most companies do have an IT dept
that could set up a caching proxy server for the hapless PCB layout
person rather easily.  Given that the person who wrote the github plugin
provided a config file for nginx and wrote the script to automate
updating footprint repos using git, it should be obvious that that
developer did not just throw users under the bus but provided them with
alternatives to the problem.  In the short term, we should include the
footprint repos as part of the kicad packaging and have users set up
their fp-lib-table to point to their hard drive if they prefer.  In the
long term, we can take a closer look at how we want to handle remote
footprint libraries.  That being said, I'm keeping my github set up.  I
like not having to periodically refresh local repos to have access to
the latest and greatest footprints.

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