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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/24/2017 4:10 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 2017-02-24 9:06 GMT+01:00 Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 08:48:17AM +0100, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> while working on the Pcbnew manual I think it's a bit curious to have
>>> something in the manual that isn't relevant for recent KiCad versions,
>>> no matter if using the stable version 4.x or master.
>>>
>>> What about to remove the section 2.3 of the Pcbnew manual completely and
>>> only holding the part about the *.pretty management?
>>
> 
> I think we could indeed remove the section about the legacy, but maybe
> it is good to keep to actually explain what the "Legacy" plugin is
> for?
> 
> Anyways, if we do decide to remove it once can still look it up in the
> old docs, and frankly it is not that much different to using the
> pretties anyways.

I'm fine with removing this.  Perhaps we should add a table that
explains all of the available plugin types and why you might want to use
them.

> 
>> Yes it seems that that part do not exist anymore...
>>
>>> http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/master/en/pcbnew.html#_managing_footprint_libraries_legacy_versions
>>>
>>> BTW: The pictures are still broken. ;)
> 
> Yeah, I know and I will fix it very soon.
> 
>>
>> Mmm strange....  it depends on where you are looking the html version from:
>>
>> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/blob/master/src/pcbnew/pcbnew_installation.adoc
>>
>> perhaps a little investigation is worth here...
>>
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>> Marco Ciampa
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