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

I'm not sure to understand why you would need symlinks. Just set KISYSMOD
to the directory containing all your .pretty footprints.

We can assume the fp_libtable in kicad-library/template directory to be up
to date. We, the librarians, have to keep it in sync will the .pretty repos.


On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Cirilo Bernardo
<cirilo_bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> ----- 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
>
>
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