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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

Has anyone had a change to look at this one? :)

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I don't have a chance to test this right now, but I REALLY like the
> idea. As a (non-official) library maintainer I'd use the hell out of
> this.
>
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 10:40:30AM +1100, Oliver Walters wrote:
> > bump :)
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Oliver Walters <
> > oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Currently a lot of the .pretty libs have the library name (e.g.
> > > "Socket_Strips.pretty") duplicated (or partly duplicated) in the
> footprint
> > > name.
> > >
> > > This is (mainly) required to allow the footprint filtering in CvPCB to
> > > match the filters defined for components.
> > >
> > > One case where this is very annoying is for the various
> > > Connectors_xxx.pretty libraries (JST / Hirose / Harwin / etc). To
> reduce
> > > the length of the filenames, a while ago the decision was made to
> remove
> > > the Connector_ prefix from the individual filenames.
> > >
> > > However, this now means that generic connector symbols have to have
> > > multiple footprint filters to match the various connector footprints.
> > >
> > > Looking through the code I saw that originally there was the option to
> > > include the LibraryName: in the search string (which is what I wanted
> to
> > > implement). However it was commented out as at some time a developer
> has
> > > decided that this behaviour was "messy".
> > >
> > > I have attached a patch that does the following:
> > >
> > > 1. If a footprint filter contains a : (colon) character, then the
> filter
> > > is matched against the pattern <LibName>:<FootprintName>
> > > 2. If there is *no* : (colon) character present, then it is matched
> > > against <FootprintName> (this is the current behaviour, and so will not
> > > break any current footprint filters.
> > > 3. The same behaviour applies for the manual filter string in CvPCB
> > >
> > > If merged, this will allow the .kicad_mod files to have significantly
> > > shorter names and we can use the footprint association filters more
> > > intelligently.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Oliver
> > >
>
>