Hi Jean-Samuel Aha, that makes sense.
Maybe the following is a bad idea, but anyway -- here goes. With that I guess one could even make a script that is cloning and updating the kicad footprints from github and chaching them also. Nick 2014-11-03 18:28 GMT+01:00 Jean-Samuel Reynaud <[email protected]>: > Hi Nick, > > Sorry I'm not always clear in my explaination... > > This plugin provide a gateway to custom plugin writen in python. > For example you can write a new plugin in python to fetch some footprint > from a database for example... > > Thanks, > Le 03/11/2014 17:37, Nick Østergaard a écrit : >> Hi Jean-Samuel >> >> What exactly does this do? I guess a section for the documentation has >> to be written to describe the purpose or functionality of this option. >> >> Does this plugin then run a python script that magically creates the >> footprint you have in mind or? Does this provide a gateway to make >> some custom plugin to fetch footprints from various sources from a >> simple python? >> >> Sorry for all the questionmarks, but I don't quite get what exactly >> this is. (I have not tried it yet) >> >> Nick >> >> 2014-11-03 15:14 GMT+01:00 Jean-Samuel Reynaud <[email protected]>: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I wrote few months ago an extension to be able to write in python a >>> footprint library plugin. >>> ie: for the moment for footprint you have to choice between: >>> - Kicad >>> - Legacy >>> - GitHub >>> ... >>> And I had write a "Python". You choose the python module to load (the >>> module name as an option of the python plugin) and this python >>> module have to implement some functions to do the job. >>> >>> This code is currently under a branch : >>> lp:~kicad-developers/kicad/python_plugin >>> >>> Specific code is mainly in pcbnew/fppython/ and there is a python >>> example in pcbnew/fppython/fppython_example.py. >>> >>> I regularly merge with upstream to maintain this branch up to date. >>> I cleanned up the code to meet coding standard. >>> >>> Is it possible to merge on main branch ? >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
