the only current thing in nightly not in stabel i know of is rounded pads, this was added a few months ago, and there was a fair amount of discussion on the list as how best to handle the non-backward compatibility issues inherit with adding a feature like this. The general concesus iirc was that no nightly-only footprints would be merged into the github libs until kicad-5 is released.
I think for the current feature it might just be worth putting something in a CI script that will be tested pre-merge into the github libs and in the long term we can look at a better way for handling new features in footprints/symbols/libs Simon On 11 March 2017 at 12:46, Chris Pavlina <[email protected]> wrote: > This doesn't directly address your question - but couldn't the automated > library checker actually load the footprints into KiCad, via the Python > API, to truly verify that they parse in KiCad proper? > > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 10:39:37AM +1100, Oliver Walters wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Can someone tell me a complete list of the differences between footprint >> "features" in nightly and stable? There is a recent issue where someone >> added a footprint using roundrect pads and broke a library for someone >> using stable. >> >> I can easily add a search for "roundrect" to the automated library checker >> but what else should I be looking for? >> >> As an aside, I think it would be **very** helpful if the footprint library >> loader was able to skip over "bad" footprints and continue to load. >> Currently a single bad footprint prevents any subsequent footprints from >> loading. If we had the ability to skip bad ones, then we could add "future" >> footprints and these would simply be ignored by stable version. >> >> Cheers, >> Oliver > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
