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There is some time between assigning a footprint to a symbol and loading 
them to a board. Some of people assigns footprints in a library. There 
are many footprints in the official repository that has either 
inconsistent or wrong pin numbering. Probably they will change as soon 
as somebody will find some time to fix them - if it will happen just 
before loading footprints to a board by some user it will break his 
design. I think that it would be better to never provide github 
fp-lib-table with installers/packages and also add warning when user 
attempts to build github fp-lib-table with wizard (online libraries are 
dangerous and many users don't consider it).

W dniu 18.01.2016 o 20:06, Wayne Stambaugh pisze:
> On 1/18/2016 1:53 PM, Andy Peters wrote:
> > > On Jan 18, 2016, at 11:11 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >   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.
> > Quoting only the above because I honestly want to understand:
> >
> > By “latest and greatest footprints,” do you mean new footprints added to the library, or changes made to footprints which are already in the library?
> Both.
>
> > The former is fine. The latter is a recipe for expensive problems.
> This is less of an issue with the board file because footprints are
> embedded in the board file and will only change if you specifically
> request them the be updated on a netlist read which is not the default.
>   This would be an issue if you made local modifications to a footprint
> and then updated the footprints on a netlist read even if the footprint
> in the library did not change.
>
> > -a
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