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[Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>]

If possible, would be good to have a single full KLC page with all the
rules combined in addition to the individual chapter pages, hopefully using
the same KLC source without having to maintain 2 version.
This is useful when you want to use the browser find functionality instead
of clicking on chapters or when you want to print out the KLC, which
reminds me there should be a revision and last update date time stamp to
the ruleset somewhere at the top of the page of the full KLC ruleset.

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Andrey


On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 5:01 AM Oliver Walters <
oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> The conversation of how best to manage and distribute KiCad libraries has
> been raging for a while now.
>
> Users looking to download or contribute to the libraries are currently
> presented with a github landing page and some bland wiki pages (e.g. for
> the KLC information).
>
> I have been working on a new-and-improved website system for the following:
>
> * Clear information about the libraries
> * A place to download the latest libraries
> * Information on what is *in* the libraries
> * Instructions on how to contribute to the libs
> * Better presentation of the KLC
>
> This website will need to be updated periodically to present the latest
> version of the libraries to the users. Also, if users are going to be
> downloading library files then it could potentially use a lot of bandwidth.
> Thirdly, the generated content should be scripted but statically hosted.
>
> The solution? GitHub pages! - https://pages.github.com/ -
>
> These are hosted from your github repository, and for e.g. ours would have
> the URL kicad.github.io - this could be easily redirected from
> kicad-lib.org/library (for example).
>
> GitHub pages use the jekyll toolset to generate static content.
>
> With a small amount of additional Python scripting I have created a
> bare-bones example of what this might look like (locally hosted on my
> laptop for now):
>
> Here are some screenshots! Ignore the colors and simple layout scheme,
> this is currently just a framework.
>
> https://imgur.com/a/0GELG
>
> The main objectives of this project are:
>
> a) Present a more professional landing page for the libraries
> b) Leverage GitHub Pages functionality
> c) Improve KLC
>
> And, eventually:
>
> Provide a standardised way to separate the KiCad libraries from the KiCad
> installer!
>
> Thoughts and comments appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Oliver
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Andrey