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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

This issue has been discussed before, at length, here -
https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/issues/257

The outcome of the discussion was to create new .pretty libs, almost
exactly as Jan suggests here.

I think this is worth pursuing - we can leave the old files where they are
for now, and eventually start to remove them.

To this end I have made a PR that updates the fp-lib-table marking old
Inductor/Choke libs as "Deprecated"

Ref: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/pull/921

This PR also links to the new .pretty repositories

I have also created the new .pretty repos as suggested. Note: I have only
made these for Inductors and Chokes, currently. We can deal with
Transformers too, but let's do one thing at a time.

Jan, if you have the time, you could begin to copy footprints across to the
new repositories.

For e.g. the current contents of https://github.com/KiCad/Inductors.pretty
could be copied to https://github.com/KiCad/Inductors_SMD.pretty

Cheers,
Oliver


On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 6:14 AM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 16/01/2017 à 19:53, Jan Krieger a écrit :
> > Am 16.01.2017 um 19:05 schrieb jp charras:
> >  one other thing. KiCAD stores a copy of the footprint in the
> .kicad_pcb-file ... so even if the lib
> > does not exist any longer, old projects should not be broken! Or do I
> missunderstand something there?
> >
> > Best,
> > JAN
> >
>
> The board is not broken: it can be opened, but the project is broken.
> The project stores and uses footprint library names.
>
> If they do not exist, Cvpcb and the footprint editor do not work anymore.
> If you want to modify a footprint, you cannot.
>
> For me, using the Github libraries as primary source is a bad practice.
> Users should use a local copy for the daily work.
> And use Github only as source of new libraries.
> This a really a basic way of work, used by all corporate users.
>
> Unfortunately, many users do not even configure Kicad.
> They just use Kicad as this, from the installer, without any configuration.
> They footprint library wizard, by default, make a local copy.
> But if the user does not use it, there is no local copy.
>
> This a really a stupid way of work, but we have to live with that.
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
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