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Message #00030
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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