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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yet another use case that I hadn't thought about.  Keep them coming.
Sometimes your focus gets so narrowed by how you do things that you
can't conceive of all possible ways other user work.  I know for a fact
that asking users to use git to maintain libraries is like asking them
to build from source to run KiCad.  I remember those days and I would
rather not go back there.

Wayne

On 2/26/2018 12:47 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> This is especially useful for our Chinese users and folks traveling to
> China for manufacturing support, as often Github and other common
> public git repositories are blocked.
> 
> Adam
> 
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 11:42 AM, 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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