I would like to take the IC packages starting with SO. I see that there are duplicate categories and confusion with SOT23 that are in two categories 32 and 34.
Jean-Paul AC9GH @ EN61vr99 louijp at yahoo dot com On May 30, 2014, at 6:09 AM, John Beard <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to take Connectors_Serial_MOLEX.pretty for the moment, please. > > Would it be possible to rename it to "Connectors_Molex.pretty"? > PicoBlades aren't serial connectors specifically. Also, if we have > libraries for each range of connectors (like Connectors_Molex_PicoBlade, > Connectors_Harwin_M40, Connectors_Molex_KK and so on), we'll have > hundreds of libraries. It would be nice to be able to do > Connectors->Molex->PicoBlade, but I realise the current system doesn't > work like that. > > On 30/05/14 10:48, Paweł Dras wrote: >> But i see a loot of inconsistency in footprints groups. >> Perhaps we should reduce .pretty groups count and naming convention. > > I agree, fragmented libraries make it hard to see what you have. > >> The same situation is with the names Sockets_*, Terminal_Blocks and >> even with Pin arrays. I suggest to change in all prefix to Connectors_ > > I agree with this - I don't think connectors need to be separated by > gender. When you get to some board-to-board connectors, it can be hard > to say which is the socket and the plug anyway. And for wire-to-board, > there's only one gender which makes sense for a PCB: the header. > > Thanks, > > John > > > > -- > 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 -- 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
