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[Vesa Solonen <vesa.solonen@xxxxxxxx>]

Matthijs Kooijman kirjoitti 23/01/18 klo 19:18:
> Hi Wayne,

> I think upgrading the library list is the most important, since (in the
> eyes of users) it is a fairly trivial change (in terms of what needs to
> happen, not necessarily in terms of implementation) that is annoying to
> do every time (remove all libraries and re-add all libraries, or compare
> the list of libraries to the files to see if anything changes).
> 
> Automatically updating existing schematics when one of its symbols moved
> to a different library would of course be awesome if that could happen
> as well. I also made a suggestion about that:
> 
>> One way I can imagine this works is to also include a "rename"
>> specification (perhaps similar to the current rename.json), which can be
>> used by KiCad to automatically migrate older symbol references. Or
>> perhaps the rescue dialog can be improved to look among other libraries
>> for a symbol with the same name and let the user choose between
>> relinking to such a symbol, or resueing one from the cache.

I've spent some time on this and it seems the way to go is using
UUID/hash as object identifier. That takes care of versioning, provides
fast and robust search, identification and archival (on object basis,
independent of "library" or version control system). Please refer to
Horizon EDA and LibrePCB implementation for details.

-Vesa