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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

That when folks produce a BOM including descriptions all aliased parts have the wrong descriptions.

(I don’t know if anyone has produced 3rd-party tools to do footprint selection, but the footprint filters would also be wrong if they did.)

> On 3 Jun 2018, at 17:46, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> 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
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