Hi Wayne, > > > [Proposal to make library upgrades easier] > > > > As a user, 10000% agree. > > Me too! If users want to constantly update their libraries, that's > their choice but kicad installers should not be forcing this on users. > We should have a fixed set of libraries that are tagged for a release > series so users have consistent libraries to work with until the next > stable release. I wouldn't be very happy if my libraries were > completely changed when I updated to a new point release of KiCad. > Users in corporate environments tend to value stability more than having > the latest libraries.
I'm not sure what you mean here. - Do you actually mean you agree and think something like my proposal should be agreed? - Do you think my proposal includes forcing users to upgrade more often? I am merely proposing to make upgrades easier *when* they happen. How often a user upgrades seems unrelated. - Are you sarcastic and think this is an issue only for users that "constantly update their libraries"? I suspect the latter is what you meant, and if so, I tend to disagree, since even if such an upgrade happens only rarely (e.g. corresponding with a KiCad majore release or Linux distribution upgrade), as a user I would still like to see the upgrade happens smoothly, without requiring manually rebuilding my entire library table. Also, I (and probably others) am actually interested in getting the latest library versions, mostly to get new symbols and fixes for existing symbols. Of course, backward-incompatible changes are a hindrance here, but I think there has already been some talk to limit such changes, including library renames, to (for example) major release versions. I guess adding new libraries within one major release cycle would be non-disruptive, though, so that would still benefit from my proposal. Gr. Matthijs
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