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

Hi Johannes,

To convert a library programmatically, you have to build KiCad with python
scripting enabled. Then, in kicad/scripts, you have a file called
lib_convert.py which can do the conversion. I did a script, a while ago,
that simply called this . It's on the developer's mailing list
here<https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg11357.html>,
but I attached it again because there were some other changes in the patch,
which I just removed.

Carl


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Johannes Spanier <jospanier@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Carl,
>
> You have converted the entire existing module library from legacy to the
> new s-expression format. How exactly did you do that? It works OK if I do
> it manually for some modules in KiCad, i.e. load legacy module and save to
> new format. But is there a better way to do this in bulk?
>
> There are many very good libraries out there and we should give
> contributors a hand and tell them how to convert their legacy libraries.
>
> Regards
> Johannes
>
>
>
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