kicad-lib-committers team mailing list archive

[Kerusey Karyu <keruseykaryu@xxxxx>]

Cirilo Bernardo pisze:

> Hi folks,
>
> With the recent switch to fp-libtables and the removal of the
> locally stored libraries, I was thinking now may be a good time
> to copy the 3D (VRML) models from the 'modules' section in the
> legacy kicad-library.
>
> (...)
>
> So, I propose copying the packages3d directory and creating a
> github repository named kicad3d-vrml.
>

Placing files somewhere in the repositories, cloud computing, etc., is 
good thing for some people, but be aware of one small thing: a flick of 
a switch labeled "Power On/Off" can deprive us of our files. More over. 
Imagine a situation where suddenly the whole worldwide network will 
fall. What is the result? Humanity goes back in a fraction of a second 
to the Stone Age!

I am the most against to move everything stored locally related to KiCad 
to remote repositories. As I remember (and understand), these remote 
repositories were to be only an one of ways in entire library system, 
but now you want to drop everything else and keep only server based part.

Thus, I do not like your idea.


>
> In a similar manner, I think it would make sense to copy the
> schematic symbols to a new repository. These symbols will not
> be deprecated until substantial changes are made to eeschema.
>
To execute such movement, you must clean up the symbol libraries first.
As one of worst examples let will serve PIC microcontrollers libraries. 
We have now five files. Ok, three I've added, but we have also another 
two where the symbols are repeated. Want to keep this mess?


By the way, I wanted to let you know that I created my own repository 
with sorted symbol libraries.
https://code.launchpad.net/~keruseykaryu/kicad/library
This is my official proposal how KiCad's symbols libraries should look like.

Sort key is simple: the manufacturer and the functional group. Some 
symbols of few important manufacturers go to the collective libraries.
Older symbols (often looks very ugly) are processed to look like those 
which I drew himself.


Regards
Kerusey Karyu