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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

I see, but I wonder if there is any benefit in making the colon
exception just for rescue/cache libraries? I suppose it makes them
special in the sense they cannot be used as regular libraries due to
illegal character in symbol names.

As I said, I am not familiar with caching/rescue code, but I imagine
that once eeschema finds "LibraryName:SymbolName" missing, it could
search for "LibraryName_SymbolName" in rescue/cache libraries. I do not
insist on a change, just taking an opportunity to learn about caching
mechanism.

Cheers,
Orson

On 04/16/2018 03:08 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Hey Orson,
> 
> The colons are required to prevent symbol name clashes in the cache
> library.  I had to prefix the library nickname to the symbol name to
> prevent symbols from being overwritten when they exist in more than on
> library.  In other words, cache library symbol names look just like
> LIB_IDs using the LIB_NICKNAME:SYMBOL_NAME format.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 4/16/2018 9:03 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
>> Hi Jean-Pierre,
>>
>> I understand the patch and thank you for the fix, but apparently I do
>> not have enough knowledge about caching in eeschema to comment on the
>> approach. Frankly, I was a bit surprised to find out that colons are
>> permitted in symbol names stored in a cache library.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Orson
>>
>> On 04/16/2018 11:06 AM, jp charras wrote:
>>> Hi Wayne and Orson,
>>>
>>> Could you have a look into the fix I committed in rev 2974a2c10.
>>> Before this fix, the library cache was broken (all symbol names incorrectly saved).
>>> This is specific to the cache, but really annoying...
>>>
>>> Please, see comments in commit 2974a2c10.
>>>
>>> But I am not sure this is the best way to fix this issue.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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