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Re: ATTN: Package Maintainers - RFC: Library Reorganization

 

This might be a good idea but there's no point until the .sweet format is
provided. The current format doesn't allow us to add custom fields that
have different valuess per alias.

On 14 Jul 2017 23:36, "Simon Richter" <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 14.07.2017 03:18, Oliver Walters wrote:
>
> > The major change is our plan to reorganize the symbol libraries to bring
> > some consistency - currently they are scattered and there is no real
> > rhyme or reason to library convention.
>
> Would it make sense to extend the format with extra data fields, so this
> can be tracked per-symbol?
>
> The extra fields I'd add would be
>
>  - "library-convention"
>
> Would be "KiCad" for "official" KiCad libraries, or users who have their
> own standard could just use their own name.
>
>  - "library-convention-version"
>
> Defined by whoever is in the "library-convention" field, and should be
> sortable somehow, possibly by a version sort (split string into
> characters and numbers, compare elementwise).
>
> We have something similar in Debian, where each package has a
> "Standards-Version" field, so we can do simple database queries for
> packages that haven't been looked at in a while.
>
> KiCad would not set these fields by default, so if someone publishes
> some symbols somewhere, they would not be marked as having been checked.
>
>    Simon
>
>
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