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

This "policy" is already in place for the libraries -
http://kicad-pcb.org/libraries/klc/G1.1/

On 29 Dec 2017 10:25 AM, "Andy Peters" <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Nov 18, 2017, at 6:07 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Diego,
>
> Thank you for the offer but I'm already working on it.  It is not as
> easy to fix as it would seem.  The problem is what to do when you do not
> have write access to the library with the invalid characters.  I have a
> few ideas but it will take me a while to get it the way I want it.
>
>
> Hi, Wayne,
>
> I just ran into this problem. (I’m using the Dec 24 nightly on a High
> Sierra Mac.) The thing is that my libraries are in a directory to which
> Kicad should have write access. On my Mac, they’re at ~/Library/Application
> Support/kicad/library
>
> The three parts in my library that use a forward-slash in the name are new
> for a design I am still working on, so renaming them in the library and
> then replacing the components on the schematic from the library isn’t too
> painful. That said: should “policy” going forward be to simply not have
> slashes in part names? I guess this is probably wise, since as I understand
> it, the .sweet format will be like .pretty with one symbol per file and the
> file’s name is the symbol name.
>
> -a
>
>
> On 11/18/2017 08:00 AM, Diego Herranz wrote:
>
> Thanks. I'll chase that bug.
>
> Diego
>
> On 18 Nov 2017 11:35 am, "Nick Østergaard" <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>
>    See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732236
>    <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732236>
>
>    2017-11-18 11:42 GMT+01:00 Diego Herranz
>    <diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>>:
>
>        Hi,
>
>        I'm testing a recent build (41f9c19b) on Ubuntu 16.04 64 bits.
>
>        When opening a schematic made with a nightly build ~2 months
>        old, the remapping dialog shows up. So far so good.
>
>        I've followed the recommendations
>        in http://kicad-pcb.org/post/symbol-lib-table/
>        <http://kicad-pcb.org/post/symbol-lib-table/> and most things
>        seem to be working fine. Every symbol gets remapped but 2. Both
>        of which include '/' in their name (e.g. PIC32MX110F016D-I/PT).
>
>        Opening the schematic after the remap, it seems Kicad has
>        changed it to PIC32MX110F016D-I_PT.
>
>        In fact, after a bit more searching, I've found out that as soon
>        as the remapping dialog shows up, before clicking on "Remap
>        symbols" the '/' characters have been replaced to '_'. So I'm
>        guessing that is the reason why it can't find the symbols when
>        remapping?
>        "Warning: No symbol 'PIC32MX110F016D-I_PT' found in symbol
>        library table." confirms that the name was changed before the
>        remapping attempt.
>
>        I have then tried to edit the broken symbols in Eeschema. When I
>        try to assign "PIC32MX110F016D-I/PT" again, which can be found
>        through the "Choose Symbol" dialog without problems, it complains:
>        " Symbol 'PIC32MX1XXFXXXD-I_PT' not found in library
>        'MCU_Microchip_PIC32'! "
>
>        Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug?
>
>        Many thanks,
>        Diego
>
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