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
<mailto: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.
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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
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