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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

What I worry most about is if there are any libs that is going to be
removed before 5.0.0.

2017-04-17 9:29 GMT+02:00 "Jörg Hermann" <joerg.hermann@xxxxxx>:
> Morning gents,
>
> I am not referring to footprints, but schematic symbols. They ship with
> kicad main installer.
> So my modification has no dependency on footprint libs - neither required
> nor introduced.
>
> Starting KiCad is as fast as usual, opening a schematic gives approx 3 sec
> delay. On a 9 year old Mac Pro with 8 GB RAM.
> I totally agree on not wasting CPU/RAM resources, imho this is not
> applicable here.
>
> Instructing a user there are more symbols - how would you do hat? In the
> fine manual that never gets read? At least not with that attention to detail
> in the beginning? Any explanation means a two fold invest: Energy spent by
> developers creating and maintaining it and time spent by user on
> understanding it.
>
> Needed symbols vary greatly between users, so it is way more natural that
> each user decides which symbols HE needs - once he has seen the whole
> offering.
>
> Jörg Hermann
>
> PS: I am a KiCAd newbie, every kink I stumble across is going to be hit by
> others as well. It is all about smoothening the learning curve.
>
> Gesendet: Montag, 17. April 2017 um 00:54 Uhr
> Von: "Andrey Kuznetsov" <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>
> An: "Nick Østergaard" <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Jörg Hermann" <joerg.hermann@xxxxxx>,
> kicad-lib-committers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "KiCad Developers"
> <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Betreff: Re: [Kicad-developers] kicad.pro with all schematic libs
> Does the default lib list ship with the kicad-lib or the kicad main program?
> I think it should be the former so that the kicad-lib provides the defaults
> based on whatever libraries they deem stable and default, and kicad program
> reads in the lib list and loads the libraries in that list. Yes kicad will
> be dependent on kicad-lib in order to have any default libraries at all, but
> assuming people maintain kicad-lib it shouldn't be a problem.
>
> I too found it annoying that a lot of libraries were not loaded by default
> and I had to add them manually.
>
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I added kicad-lib-comitters, I would like to know why that think about
>> this.
>>
>> 2017-04-16 22:49 GMT+02:00 "Jörg Hermann" <joerg.hermann@xxxxxx>:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > KiCad ships with 92 schematic ibraries, but kicad.pro contains only 29.
>> > I suggest defaulting to have all libs in kicad.pro by replacing the 29
>> > libs
>> > with my list.
>> > I suggest applying this to devel and stable.
>> >
>> > Best regards and happy easter eggs to all!
>> >
>> > Jörg Hermann
>> >
>> > LibName1=74xgxx
>> > LibName2=74xx
>> > LibName3=ac-dc
>> > LibName4=actel
>> > LibName5=adc-dac
>> > LibName6=allegro
>> > LibName7=Altera
>> > LibName8=analog_devices
>> > LibName9=analog_switches
>> > LibName10=atmel
>> > LibName11=audio
>> > LibName12=battery_management
>> > LibName13=bbd
>> > LibName14=bosch
>> > LibName15=brooktre
>> > LibName16=cmos_ieee
>> > LibName17=cmos4000
>> > LibName18=conn
>> > LibName19=contrib
>> > LibName20=cypress
>> > LibName21=dc-dc
>> > LibName22=device
>> > LibName23=digital-audio
>> > LibName24=diode
>> > LibName25=display
>> > LibName26=dsp
>> > LibName27=elec-unifil
>> > LibName28=ESD_Protection
>> > LibName29=ftdi
>> > LibName30=gennum
>> > LibName31=graphic
>> > LibName32=hc11
>> > LibName33=intel
>> > LibName34=interface
>> > LibName35=intersil
>> > LibName36=ir
>> > LibName37=Lattice
>> > LibName38=leds
>> > LibName39=linear
>> > LibName40=logo
>> > LibName41=maxim
>> > LibName42=mechanical
>> > LibName43=memory
>> > LibName44=microchip
>> > LibName45=microchip_dspic33dsc
>> > LibName46=microchip_pic10mcu
>> > LibName47=microchip_pic12mcu
>> > LibName48=microchip_pic16mcu
>> > LibName49=microchip_pic18mcu
>> > LibName50=microchip_pic24mcu
>> > LibName51=microchip_pic32mcu
>> > LibName52=microcontrollers
>> > LibName53=modules
>> > LibName54=motor_drivers
>> > LibName55=motorola
>> > LibName56=motors
>> > LibName57=msp430
>> > LibName58=nordicsemi
>> > LibName59=nxp
>> > LibName60=nxp_armmcu
>> > LibName61=onsemi
>> > LibName62=opto
>> > LibName63=Oscillators
>> > LibName64=philips
>> > LibName65=power
>> > LibName66=Power_Management
>> > LibName67=powerint
>> > LibName68=pspice
>> > LibName69=references
>> > LibName70=regul
>> > LibName71=relays
>> > LibName72=rfcom
>> > LibName73=sensors
>> > LibName74=silabs
>> > LibName75=siliconi
>> > LibName76=stm32
>> > LibName77=stm8
>> > LibName78=supertex
>> > LibName79=switches
>> > LibName80=texas
>> > LibName81=transf
>> > LibName82=transistors
>> > LibName83=triac_thyristor
>> > LibName84=ttl_ieee
>> > LibName85=valves
>> > LibName86=video
>> > LibName87=wiznet
>> > LibName88=Worldsemi
>> > LibName89=Xicor
>> > LibName90=xilinx
>> > LibName91=zetex
>> > LibName92=Zilog
>> >
>> >
>> >
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