Jan, That's a fair point, and there is already duplication between existing Choke and Inductor footprints.
Let's continue with Inductors_SMD and Inductors_THT for now, if anyone strenuously objects we can add a separate Choke lib. Oliver On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Jan Krieger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > yes I can start doing that ... thinking about the chokes: Do we really > need them? As I understand it: A choke is ALWAYS an inductor, it's just how > you use it ... Why not put them all under Inductors? > > Best, > JAN > > Am 16.01.2017 um 22:36 schrieb Oliver Walters: > >> This issue has been discussed before, at length, here - >> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/issues/257 >> >> The outcome of the discussion was to create new .pretty libs, almost >> exactly as Jan suggests here. >> >> I think this is worth pursuing - we can leave the old files where they >> are for now, and eventually start to remove them. >> >> To this end I have made a PR that updates the fp-lib-table marking old >> Inductor/Choke libs as "Deprecated" >> >> Ref: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/pull/921 >> >> This PR also links to the new .pretty repositories >> >> I have also created the new .pretty repos as suggested. Note: I have >> only made these for Inductors and Chokes, currently. We can deal with >> Transformers too, but let's do one thing at a time. >> >> Jan, if you have the time, you could begin to copy footprints across to >> the new repositories. >> >> For e.g. the current contents >> of https://github.com/KiCad/Inductors.pretty could be copied >> to https://github.com/KiCad/Inductors_SMD.pretty >> >> Cheers, >> Oliver >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 6:14 AM, jp charras <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Le 16/01/2017 à 19:53, Jan Krieger a écrit : >> > Am 16.01.2017 um 19:05 schrieb jp charras: >> > one other thing. KiCAD stores a copy of the footprint in the >> .kicad_pcb-file ... so even if the lib >> > does not exist any longer, old projects should not be broken! Or do >> I missunderstand something there? >> > >> > Best, >> > JAN >> > >> >> The board is not broken: it can be opened, but the project is broken. >> The project stores and uses footprint library names. >> >> If they do not exist, Cvpcb and the footprint editor do not work >> anymore. >> If you want to modify a footprint, you cannot. >> >> For me, using the Github libraries as primary source is a bad >> practice. >> Users should use a local copy for the daily work. >> And use Github only as source of new libraries. >> This a really a basic way of work, used by all corporate users. >> >> Unfortunately, many users do not even configure Kicad. >> They just use Kicad as this, from the installer, without any >> configuration. >> They footprint library wizard, by default, make a local copy. >> But if the user does not use it, there is no local copy. >> >> This a really a stupid way of work, but we have to live with that. >> >> -- >> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-lib-committers >> <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-lib-committers> >> Post to : [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-lib-committers >> <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-lib-committers> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > +--------------------------------- > | Jan Krieger > | Schwetzinger Straße 60 > | 69124 Heidelberg > | > | [email protected] > | www.jkrieger.de > +--------------------------------- > > -- > 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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