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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bernd,

The names for the pdf previews should follow up shortly.


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Bernd Wiebus <bernd.wiebus@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Povilas.
>
> > Currently the libraries in the Carl's repository on GitHub[1] have
> > names like this:
> >
> > VML0806_Housing_Rohm_RevA_26Oct2012
> >
>
> This is a library made by me. I use this naming system to keep a stright
> line in my own development repository.
>
> > Are version and date suffixes used in any way for versioning? I don't
> > see any duplicated libraries, thus I guess no, but it's worth to make
> sure.
> >
>
> Of course, i deleted the old versions, if i upload new ones to
> launchpad.
>
> > In any case, different, incompatible versions of the same library could
> > be tracked in different Git branches. We could remove the suffixes then
> > as they would serve no useful purpose yet add clutter to the library
> names.
>
> Ok. For future, i will rename the librarys here at launchpad. But the
> Problem for me is now, to recognize my own old librarys, because they
> are partly renamed now.
> Also the names at the pdf previews will not fit anymore to the
> coreponding files.
>
> >
> > In addition to the above, I propose to add a distinct prefix, such as
> > 'foot_' or 'lib_' to all footprint libraries. We may want to host some
> > footprint-unrelated repositories under the Kicad github
> > user/organization and this would make organizing things much easier.
> >
>
> Nice idea.
>
> With best regards: Bernd Wiebus alias dl1eic
>
>
>
>
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