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[Kaspar Emanuel <kaspar.emanuel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry to bring this up again but it just strikes me as a bit odd. Can we
not allow slash characters in the fp-lib-table as before and not break
backwards compatibility? It seems to read fp-lib-tables with slashes fine
but current KiCad nightly won't let me edit it. I am up for making a patch
if there's a chance it could make it into v5.


On 10 May 2018 at 12:07, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 5/8/2018 6:27 PM, Kaspar Emanuel wrote:
> > 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?
>
> This is correct.  The plan is to fix this after the new schematic file
> formats are implemented so it should happen some time during v6
> development.
>
> >
> > On 8 May 2018 at 22:10, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto: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
> >         <https://github.com/monostable/kicad_footprints>>.
> >
> >         Is there a good reason for not allowing slashes in names?
> >
> >         Cheers,
> >
> >         Kaspar
> >
> >         ​
> >
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