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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just committed the component library file parser for the new schematic
I/O plugin manager.  Please test it when you get a chance.  As with the
schematic parser and formatter, it requires compiling with
-DUSE_SCH_IO_MANAGER=ON.  The current library file parser has some odd
quirks so there may be some corner cases where older libraries do not
load properly.  If you get a error loading a library that the current
parser loads properly, please send me the library file so I can fix the
new parser.  As with the schematic parser, the new library parser will
be much more strict about the file formatting.  There is also a bug in
the existing parser where parsed library objects are not sorted at load
time.  As some point, the sorting must have changed so if you save a
library to a new name for round trip testing there will be some minor
differences in the order of the draw objects in the component
definitions.  Next up will be the using the plugin to handle library
management which I suspect will be much more likely to break things.

Thanks,

Wayne