I'm not sure to understand why you would need symlinks. Just set KISYSMOD to the directory containing all your .pretty footprints.
We can assume the fp_libtable in kicad-library/template directory to be up to date. We, the librarians, have to keep it in sync will the .pretty repos. On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Cirilo Bernardo <[email protected]>wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Johannes Spanier <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: > > Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2014 2:17 AM > > Subject: [Kicad-lib-committers] Library build process > > > > Hi Libteam, > > > > Since the move to the *.pretty directory structure all in seperate > repos, how do > > I build the complete library? > > I want to use the library on-disk and not depend on the github-plugin > and thus > > internet and github to work. > > > > By now I just clone ALL *.pretty repos from GitHub and keep them synced > > afterwards, but some sort of build script would be much cleaner. > > > > I use this very crude Python script to fetch ALL GitHub KiCad repos (and > exclude > > the kicad-source-mirror) > > The script requires PyGitHub -> pip install PyGitHub > > > > -------- clone all repos of an GitHub organization ------ > > #! /usr/bin/python > > > > from github import Github > > import os > > > > g = Github() > > org = "KiCad" > > cmd_template = '"git clonehttps://github.com/"; + org + > > "/" + repo + ".git"' > > > > repolist = [repo.name for repo in g.get_organization(org).get_repos()] > > > > for repo in repolist: > > if repo != "kicad-source-mirror": > > os.system(eval(cmd_template)) > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Regards, > > > > Johannes Spanier > > > > > Hi Johannes, > > I think that script is pretty good for the initial pull. With a little > work to check if a directory exists (in which case 'pull' instead of > 'clone') it will be much better. The challenge I think is placing the > cloned items in an appropriate directory and maintaining them. On Linux and > OSX this would be trivial - simply create symlinks. I don't know about > MSWin. > > Another convenience would be to create the fp_libtable entries as well, > but managing the entries can be tricky: basically the main table would have > to be parsed and entries only added if they don't already exist. > > - Cirilo > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-lib-committers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-lib-committers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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