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

The search-bar functionality wouldn't be too hard - javascript should be a
sharp enough tool for the job.

Symbol / footprint previews would be great! However this is a lot more work

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 12:01 AM, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 11/03/2017 01:31 AM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Stage 2 of ? of the library update project is underway.
> >
> > Idea: A downloads page for the libraries that presents individual
> libraries
> > for download, and users can preview the data available in the libraries.
> >
> > This is auto-built based on the latest library data.
> >
> > Preview: https://kicad.github.io/symbols/
> >
> > I have wrangled the GitHub pages tool along with Travis CI to auto-build
> > these pages. It provides compressed downloads of symbol libs thus far.
> >
> > To do:
> >
> > 1. Downloads for footprint libs
> > 2. Downloads for 3D models
> > 3. Improve scripts so that data that have not changed are not
> recompressed
> > (reduce build time and also remove useless git updates)
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> Awesome! At one point a search bar and symbol/footprint previews would
> be nice add-ons, but I already like the page in the current form.
> Thank you Oliver and other librarians, I see a lot of great work on the
> libraries being done recently. I am happy to see you care about the way
> the contents is presented to the users.
>
> Cheers,
> Orson
>
> > The general idea is that this page will be linked from
> > http://kicad-pcb.org/libraries/download
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Oliver
>
>
>
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