Hi Adam I would really like to see some caching here, but my skillset in that way it not that well matched.
What I currently do myself, is that I have created a package script based on the library-repos-install.sh method and uploaded on the AUR (archlinux) which just installs the footprints locally, then I can just reinstall that package to update. Nick 2014-11-03 21:43 GMT+01:00 Adam Wolf <[email protected]>: > Hi Nick, > > Before we get too far down that path, I think there is a better set of tools > for caching Github results locally--git. > > I work relatively often from airplanes or countries with poor internet > access, so I use scripts to copy stuff locally. > > To be completely honest, I have been confused as to why Dick went straight > for a particular Git host's API, as compared to using Git itself. Disk > space, maybe? I am one of the users (like Bernhard, I guess) who doesn't > really like using the Github plugin, and uses data on disk instead. Git > provides a way for me to quickly download the new work Carl and the other > library folks have done. > > If someone wants to talk about this more, I'm up for it. > > Adam Wolf > Cofounder and Engineer > W&L > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Nick Østergaard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
