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

I'm also in favor of the "lib_" prefix.


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi Bernd,
>
> The names for the pdf previews should follow up shortly.
>
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> 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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