Yet another use case that I hadn't thought about. Keep them coming. Sometimes your focus gets so narrowed by how you do things that you can't conceive of all possible ways other user work. I know for a fact that asking users to use git to maintain libraries is like asking them to build from source to run KiCad. I remember those days and I would rather not go back there.
Wayne On 2/26/2018 12:47 PM, Adam Wolf wrote: > This is especially useful for our Chinese users and folks traveling to > China for manufacturing support, as often Github and other common > public git repositories are blocked. > > Adam > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On 2/26/2018 6:39 AM, Simon Richter wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 25.02.2018 22:52, Andrey Kuznetsov wrote: >>> >>>> The unchecked components in the image below cannot be checked. >>> >>> Yes, these are no longer in the nightly installer, because they are >>> 600MB compressed, and most nightly users maintain their libraries >>> themselves. >>> >>> Simon >>> >> >> Simon, >> >> Are there any plans to package the libraries as a separate installer? >> I'm sure there are some windows users are going to want to be able to >> install libraries directly rather than deal with git repos. First time >> users are going to be bewildered by an EDA tool that appears to offer no >> symbol, footprint and/or 3D model libraries. >> >> Wayne >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
