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Re: Names of KiCad footprint libraries

 

Oh, thanks for the information.

Besides editing the documents that contain references to them, is there
anything else to do? I can give you a hand on that.


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Bernd Wiebus <bernd.wiebus@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Carl.
>
> > The names for the pdf previews should follow up shortly.
>
> I fear not so fast. Because i have to recreate the pdfs, I named/cited
> the files inside the documents.
> So renaming the files will not help for this.
>
> With best regards: Bernd Wiebus alias dl1eic
>
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 27.11.2013, 13:50 -0500 schrieb Carl Poirier:
> > 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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