On 1/15/2018 10:23 AM, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > Hi folks, > >>> 3. What are the plans for providing coherent library names and the >>> introducing new libraries? >> We will try to limit such problems. But it might still happen that a library >> will be split up into multiple libs if the library gets too large. > I had an idea on solving this. Not sure if this is the right place for > this suggestion (since it probably requires code changes in KiCad), but > it seems relevant enough. I can imagine that KiCad either gets a way to: > 1) include all libraries in a given directory (e.g. > /usr/share/kicad/something). This should be re-evaluated whenever > KiCad starts up, so there should be an explicit > "/usr/share/kicad/library/*.lib" entry in the table (or something > like that), as opposed to actually putting each library in the table > individually, or > 2) include a secondary library table from the normal one. Then any kicad > library package can ship such a secondary library table, and update > it to reflect the new list of libraries. > > I think these would apply to both symbols and footprints equally. Option > 2) seems more elegant and flexible to me. Both options should be able to > provide pretty seamless library upgrades for users (and can even be > extended to third party library collections, or a user's own libraries).
KiCad should not be determining which libraries get loaded just because our library layout gets more complex. I would reject any design changed that loaded libraries outside the users control. Maybe I'm misreading this but it kind of sounds like that to me. > > Has something like this ever been considered before? > > Gr. > > Matthijs > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
