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[Kaspar Emanuel <kaspar.emanuel@xxxxxxxxx>]

I see, thanks for the info Wayne. So enforcing this for names in
_footprint_ lib-tables is simply done for code sharing?

If I understand you correctly short-lived means for the lifetime of v5?

On 8 May 2018 at 22:10, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This was done because the schematic file format parser would break with
> the forward slash character.  I hope to fix this early in the v6
> development but it's a pain we are going to have to live with until the new
> schematic file format is complete.  I wish I had the time to do it all at
> once but it's just wasn't in the cards.  I have to implement this one piece
> at a time.  There was an announcement on this mailing list about it.  I
> apologize for the inconvenience.  Hopefully it will be short lived.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 05/08/2018 04:40 PM, Kaspar Emanuel wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> looks like a forward slash character in nick names in the fp-lib-table is
>> not supported any more (it can be read but it cannot be saved).
>>
>> This breaks compatibility with older fp-lib-tables somewhat. I have been
>> using slashes in names to namespace fp-lib-tables created for my footprint
>> collection <https://github.com/monostable/kicad_footprints>.
>>
>> Is there a good reason for not allowing slashes in names?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Kaspar
>>
>> ​
>>
>>
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