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Re: Request to remove footprints_doc and related files

 

Done.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Nick,
>
> That's a good idea. I will be deleting the folder Friday evening.
>
> Carl
>
> On Aug 4, 2016 08:16, "Nick Østergaard" <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> In the kicad-library there is an old footprints_doc folder which is
> not really used by anyone for anything I think. Can't we remove this,
> they take up about 270MB of space no one is using. The contents of the
> footprints_doc is generated from the pcb files in the modules folder,
> the dir containing the footprints_doc.
>
> It seems they were made by Bernd Wiebus in 2013.
>
> I don't think we should keep these kind of docs like this. Shall I
> make a pull request to remove them or would some of the librarians
> take care of this?
>
> Sincerely
> Nick Østergaard
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/tree/master/modules/footprints_doc
>
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