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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/26/2018 6:39 AM, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 25.02.2018 22:52, Andrey Kuznetsov wrote:
> 
>> The unchecked components in the image below cannot be checked.
> 
> Yes, these are no longer in the nightly installer, because they are
> 600MB compressed, and most nightly users maintain their libraries
> themselves.
> 
>    Simon
> 

Simon,

Are there any plans to package the libraries as a separate installer?
I'm sure there are some windows users are going to want to be able to
install libraries directly rather than deal with git repos.  First time
users are going to be bewildered by an EDA tool that appears to offer no
symbol, footprint and/or 3D model libraries.

Wayne