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[Jan Krieger <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody!

does anybody of you know, how the plans to change also the schlibs of 
KiCAD to a new fileformat (similar to the .pretty repos) are going forward?

... and do you know whether there will be new features in the new format?

I'm thinking of having the footprints a fourth thing that one can change 
in ALIASes (see a discussion that I started here 
https://github.com/KiCad/Potentiometers.pretty/pull/12 ... but didn't 
get anywhere useful). This would be great, especially for components 
like say diodes: Then we only need one symbol for all 
diodes/transistors/... with the same pinout and have all sorts of 
different types as aliases, where we just set the new 
description+keywords+datasheet+footprint ... I think that would be 
really usefull, also to maintain the lib.

A second thing would be special DCM-files (lets call them EDCM for now) 
that are not tied to a specific LIB-file, but that can reference any 
component from any .lib-file without the need for components in the EDCM 
to be referenced in the .lib as ALIAS ... then this EDCM would be like a 
database for components, e.g.:

$ECMP 1N4148 device.lib:D
D Diode
K diode
F ...
P Diodes_ThroughHole:Diode_DO-34_SOD68_Horizontal_RM7.5
$ENDECMP

... that would make maintenance of libs even easier (especially if we 
had a simple table-editor for these files ...

What do you think?

Best,
JAN