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Re: Request to remove footprints_doc and related files

 

Thanks to Thomas Pointhuber for the merge. Nick moved the tag, so case
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On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have made a pull reuest for removal of the source files for those,
> that is https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/pull/640
>
> Please reveiw as soon as possible.
>
> Also I commited a fix needed in the cmake files after the
> footprints_doc folder was removed.
> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/commit/
> 39a85ac01f01ab480ca2c868e3d1b1a31be5549c
>
> I would like to have the mentioned pull-request merged and then move
> the 4.0.3 tag to that commit on kicad-library.git.
>
> 2016-08-06 1:03 GMT+02:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Thanks, but I think you can also remove a lot of the stuff in
> > https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/tree/master/modules if not all
> > except the packages3d of course. So that is the kicad_pcb and brd
> > files, I don't know about the equ files, but I don't think they are
> > used anywhere either, but I could be wrong.
> >
> > 2016-08-06 0:59 GMT+02:00 Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> 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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