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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the case that there is a separate installer for the libraries (which I
also think makes sense), maybe those line items should be removed from the
main installer instead of just disabled (if that is easy) to reduce
confusion?

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 12:42 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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
>
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