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

That's a good point. In this case, matching the pin positions and numbers
is going to be easy. It will be done before merging.

I did not want to create a new lib because the parts would essentially
accomplish the same thing.

Thanks for your input,

Carl


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:00 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 19/03/2014 03:38, Carl Poirier a écrit :
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > A contributor by the name of Michal Stec has sent updates to
> > kicad-library. Specifically, he has sent a complete set of connectors
> > from 1x1 to 2x40, made to match the fixed Pin_Arrays.pretty and
> > Socket_Strips.pretty. I am wondering what would be best to do with the
> > symbols. You can have a look at my suggestion here
> > <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/pull/3>.
> >
> > My idea is to ditch all the previous connectors for this complete set.
> > I'm thinking, and if I'm wrong please explain why to me, that in a
> > schematic, we would need only one set of connectors. Only the footprint
> > would change to match the physical connector. The other reason I
> > replaced all the old ones is because I thought they were weird a bit;
> > it's like if they had an inverter on each pin.
> >
> > I would like to know other's thoughts on the matter, so that's why I
> > only opened a pull request for now.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Carl
>
> Thanks.
>
> Removing existing components in old libs could break existing schematics
> which use them, because these components will be not found after
> replacing the libs.
> Fortunately, there is a copy of all component in lib cache, but removing
> components is not good for compatibility.
> You can replace old components by new component without any problem if
> pins position and number and not modified (i.e. if only the body graphic
> shape is modified) but be careful when removing/changing existing
> components.
>
> Sometimes creating a new lib is better and more easy, because there is
> no constraint.
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
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