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[Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne-

Yes, somehow this reply got triaged without my looking at it.  Sorry!

I've looked into the other issues surrounding this approach and should have
a full patch this weekend.

-S

2018-02-07 8:53 GMT-08:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Seth,
>
> Did you get my reply about this patch?  I haven't seen a response.  I am
> interested in allowing spaces in the lib nicknames but your patch caused
> issues when loading the cache lib.  Are you planning on fixing this?  If
> so, any idea when?  I would like to get this in to v5 if possible.
> Otherwise, the patch wont mean anything once the new file formats are
> complete.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 1/26/2018 3:00 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> > Wayne-
> >
> > Would you object to a patch like the attached?  It reads the name line
> > in reverse order, allowing spaces in the component name.  If this is an
> > acceptable approach, I'll make the other required internal changes.
> >
> > -Seth
> >
> > 2018-01-26 10:22 GMT-08:00 Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx
> > <mailto:tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>>:
> >
> >     On 26/01/18 19:18, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >     > On 1/26/2018 1:01 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> >     >> Hi all,
> >     >>
> >     >> Why are space characters not allowed in the SCH library
> nicknames, but
> >     >> are OK for the FP libraries? Is this an overlook on SCH/PCB side?
> >     >>
> >     >> I'd like to disable the space check in eeschema, it's very
> annoying if
> >     >> the library file names contain spaces.
> >     >>
> >     >> Regards,
> >     >> Tom
> >     >
> >     > For the same reason you can have spaces in symbol names, library
> symbol
> >     > names are not quoted in the schematic file format.  If you can
> figure
> >     > out a way to fix this without changing the schematic file format
> and
> >     > breaking anything, then I'm ok with that.  The new schematic file
> format
> >     > will use quoted strings for symbol library links (which will only
> be for
> >     > reverting or updating since symbols will be embedded in the
> schematic)
> >     > so I will remove this restriction once the new file formats are in
> play.
> >     >
> >
> >     Hi Wayne,
> >
> >     Now I understand the reason for not allowing spaces. What about the
> >     slashes?
> >
> >     Tom
> >
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