On Oct 4, 2013 12:58 PM, "Dick Hollenbeck" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Oct 4, 2013 12:08 PM, "Carl Poirier" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I am also in favor of keeping simpler library names. The latest dialog works well on my side, pasting the table from the README.md as well. Great work there. > > > > I'll try in the next few days to get a README.md generated for each pretty library. > > > > As for copying the whole table at once instead of going into each repository, would having an empty repository containing only a README.md be a good idea? > >
Your's is a good suggestion too. It would be a mistake to think that I need to approve, or any developer needs to approve good ideas pertaining to footprint management. The footprint management folks can elect their own leader. I will not be involved. > > For the 'official' libraries you converted, I committed template/fp-lib-table.for-github. which you can help maintain. > > I added no cmake install support for it yet. But its in the source repo so it won't get lost on mailing list. > > I doubt if all our official libraries warrant the term 'official'. Some seem highly personal. Grouping and naming seem chaotic. > > I don't see leadership in this work, sorry. > > Opportunity for someone I think. > > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> >> Short term our best options are to encourage preparation of a publishing guideline. That > >> >> document would talk about what constitutes a good library, > >> >> and how to prepare the > >> >> README.md file, and maybe even offer a wxPython script to prepare it automatically. > >> > >> See > >> > >> https://github.com/liftoff-sr/pretty_footprints > >> > >> for a quick initial attempt I made at manual preparation this morning. It allows: > >> > >> 1) quick copying and pasting of (fp_lib_table) element from HTML view at bottom of page > >> into a blank row of DIALOG_FP_LIB_TABLE. > >> > >> 2) has hyperlinks to every *raw* format pretty file, (which when someone adds (module) > >> s-expr clipboard pasting support to module editor, could be copied and pasted from > >> webbrowser into module editor.) This offers yet another way just to grab one footprint > >> without bringing in the whole library as in 1) above. > >> > >> > >> > >
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