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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not opposed to moving the scripts to their own repo.  This
definitely should not happen until 5.1 is released as I sure it will
take some time to work out the specifics.  I would guess on of the
biggest issues would be how to package them apart from the main kicad
package.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 12/17/2018 3:48 AM, Thomas Pointhuber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm in favor of managing the scripts like the library in a distinct
> repository, but I would wait after 5.1 release, as well as not simply
> copying the existing scripts into that repository.
> 
> I made a RFC on the forum some time ago how I would think such a
> repository could look like, which would imply that the footprint wizards
> are scriptable in the future, as well as they represent the reference
> implementation for footprints (which are currently located in my own
> repository):
> 
> https://forum.kicad.info/t/rfc-future-of-footprint-wizard-and-generator/12592
> 
> Regards, Thomas
> 
> Am 16.12.18 um 17:54 schrieb Wayne Stambaugh:
>> On 12/15/2018 10:42 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
>>> Am 2018-12-15 21:09, schrieb Oliver Walters:
>>>> Seth,
>>>>
>>>>> I like this idea.  Coupled with a build/install CMake script in the
>>>>> repo
>>>>> would make iterating on the Python script development faster/easier.
>>>>
>>>> A cmake script sounds like a good idea, would you be willing to add
>>>> this to the repo?
>>>
>>> Sure.  But let's give a few days for any objections before moving ahead.
>>>  There may be concerns that I'm not thinking of.
>>>
>>> -S
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure I like this idea.  I have no objections to scripts that are
>> not distributed with KiCad to be maintained in any manner the developer
>> see fit.  I would prefer that any source code that gets distributed with
>> KiCad remain in the source repo.  I would not be opposed to removing the
>> footprint wizards from KiCad and make them a separate project but I'm
>> not sure all of our users would agree with installing them separately
>> since they have been part of KiCad almost as long as the python
>> scripting support.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
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