I did notice that the new io manager thing broke some libs things related to the microchip libs, but it also found an error in the official libs that I patched. But then I forgot to report the other issues.
But yeah, it seems strange that slash'es are not allowed in footprint property names. 2017-02-10 22:59 GMT+01:00 Chris Pavlina <[email protected]>: > To elaborate - I get that / is forbidden because part names will be file > names in the new format, but this is going to break libraries. Manufs > have used all kinds of horrid symbols in part numbers. Perhaps we should > make the plugin system allow each plugin to specify its own valid > characters? The legacy format has always allowed / so the legacy plugin > should. > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 03:57:11PM -0600, José Ignacio wrote: >> This broke all my designs with microchip parts (which have forward slashes >> in the symbol names). Sadpanda.jpg >> >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > I just pushed my changes to make the schematic I/O plugin the default >> > for all schematic and symbol library I/O. This is a pretty significant >> > change. I tested everything I could think of but there may be some >> > corner cases that I missed. I also used LIB_ID instead of wxString to >> > store symbol library lookup information. For now, it behaves the same >> > way it always has. Please let me know if you find any issues and I will >> > try to fix them as quickly as possible. KICAD_USE_SCH_IO_MANAGER is no >> > longer a build option. >> > >> > I'm going to try to get the symbol library table implemented in the next >> > week or so. This will likely be the last of the schematic I/O changes >> > before the next stable release. I am going to push the new file formats >> > to the stable 6 release due to the increasing amount of time I am >> > spending doing project management stuff and the equally decreasing >> > amount of time I have to code. Given that none of the new features >> > provided by the new file formats would have been implemented for the >> > stable 5 release, I don't think this is a major setback. This will give >> > us some more time to further discuss the new file formats before I >> > implement them. The new file formats will be my first task after the >> > stable 5 release. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > >> > Wayne >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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
