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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo_bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Johannes Spanier <jospanier@xxxxxx>
> To: kicad-lib-committers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: 
> Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2014 2:17 AM
> Subject: [Kicad-lib-committers] Library build process
> 
> Hi Libteam,
> 
> Since the move to the *.pretty directory structure all in seperate repos, how do 
> I build the complete library?
> I want to use the library on-disk and not depend on the github-plugin and thus 
> internet and github to work.
> 
> By now I just clone ALL *.pretty repos from GitHub and keep them synced 
> afterwards, but some sort of build script would be much cleaner.
> 
> I use this very crude Python script to fetch ALL GitHub KiCad repos (and exclude 
> the kicad-source-mirror)
> The script requires PyGitHub -> pip install PyGitHub
> 
> -------- clone all repos of an GitHub organization ------
> #! /usr/bin/python
> 
> from github import Github
> import os
> 
> g = Github()
> org = "KiCad"
> cmd_template = '"git clonehttps://github.com/"; + org + 
> "/" + repo + ".git"'
> 
> repolist = [repo.name for repo in g.get_organization(org).get_repos()]
> 
> for repo in repolist:
>     if repo != "kicad-source-mirror":
>         os.system(eval(cmd_template))
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Johannes Spanier
> 


Hi Johannes,

 I think that script is pretty good for the initial pull. With a little work to check if a directory exists (in which case 'pull' instead of 'clone') it will be much better. The challenge I think is placing the cloned items in an appropriate directory and maintaining them. On Linux and OSX this would be trivial - simply create symlinks. I don't know about MSWin.

 Another convenience would be to create the fp_libtable entries as well, but managing the entries can be tricky: basically the main table would have to be parsed and entries only added if they don't already exist.

- Cirilo