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

Footprints now working too - https://kicad.github.io/footprints/

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Oliver Walters <
oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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