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Le 03/06/2018 à 18:10, Jeff Young a écrit :
> We currently export library components the same way we store them (ie: just the root, with a list of aliases).
> 
> We do not output the alias descriptions, documentation links or footprint filters.  The missing documentation links are OK since these are copied to the datasheet fields of the individual components; the missing descriptions and footprint filters are a problem for BOM generators.
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> Since aliases are mainly a way to ease authoring, I propose that we write out a flattened version of the library components — that is we write out a component for each alias.  (We can still list the aliases in the root component for 3rd-party readers that are looking for it.)
> 
> Thoughts?

What is the *actual* problem to solve?

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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS