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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

And come to think of it, there is Murphy’s Law:

The best way to ensure that someone out there has hundreds of local libs is to get rid of the local-lib-cache.

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 23 Jul 2019, at 12:28, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Le 23/07/2019 à 20:09, Seth Hillbrand a écrit :
>> On 2019-07-23 13:38, jp charras wrote:
>>> Le 23/07/2019 à 19:22, Jeff Young a écrit :
>>>> Hi Seth,
>>>> 
>>>> I think that would work.  And you’re right — there probably aren’t
>>>> enough project libs to require a cache for them.
>>> 
>>> I am not sure to understand.
>>> 
>>> The cache is by lib table, or by library file?
>>> This is very different: if it is by lib table, I am thinking lib table
>>> projects require a cache.
>> 
>> The cache uses the combined global + project lib tables right now and
>> stores in the project directory.  I am proposing making the cache only
>> for the global lib table and store it next to the global library table
>> and not cache the project library files at all.
>> 
>> Alternatively, we could merge the cache and the table files.  Global
>> library table file gets the global cache, project library table file
>> gets the project-specific cache.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> -Seth
>> 
> 
> Yes: why tho remove the project-specific libs cache?
> 2 separate caches for global libs and project is a good idea.
> 
> The best is to have a cache for global libs and a project cache for libs
> not in global table.
> 
> Ideally, global libs could be only really a few libs like power and
> device (for eeschema) or resistors, capacitors and a few other for
> footprints
> 
> Therefore, local lib tables could have more libs than the global table.
> 
> The alternate way is for me the way to go.
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> 
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