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[Kaspar Emanuel <kaspar.emanuel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Those are good reasons for not allowing slashes in the footprint names but
I don’t see any reason for not allowing them in *library* nick names. As
far as I can tell any character except : could be allowed before the :.
It’s a pretty long standing “bug” so we could view it as standard. It will
break "compatibility" with fp-lib-tables that use the slash character and
users were never warned about using it.

If it *will* be allowed in v6 why make people change it when going from v4
to v5?
​

On 13 June 2018 at 18:35, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> AFAIK you cannot use slashes ('/') or colons (':') in either a library
> (footprint or symbol) table nickname or a footprint or symbol name.  If
> you could use a slash in a footprint library nickname in the past, this
> was a bug and the fact that it worked was a fluke.  The reason is that
> the library ID format is NICKNAME:FP_OR_SYM_NAME/REV.  The other issue
> is that footprint names are actually the filename sans extension.  Using
> a slash in a footprint name would render it unusable.  I am going to fix
> this as part of the new schematic and symbol library file format v6
> work.  The reason this was not done for v5 the fix will require
> schematic, board, and footprint file format changes which I didn't not
> want to do for v5 as we were already late into the development cycle.
>
> On 6/13/2018 2:19 PM, Kaspar Emanuel wrote:
> > 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
> > <mailto: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>
> >     > <mailto: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>
> >     >         <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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