Sorry to bring this up again but it just strikes me as a bit odd. Can we not allow slash characters in the fp-lib-table as before and not break backwards compatibility? It seems to read fp-lib-tables with slashes fine but current KiCad nightly won't let me edit it. I am up for making a patch if there's a chance it could make it into v5.
On 10 May 2018 at 12:07, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/8/2018 6:27 PM, Kaspar Emanuel wrote: > > I see, thanks for the info Wayne. So enforcing this for names in > > _footprint_ lib-tables is simply done for code sharing? > > > > If I understand you correctly short-lived means for the lifetime of v5? > > This is correct. The plan is to fix this after the new schematic file > formats are implemented so it should happen some time during v6 > development. > > > > > On 8 May 2018 at 22:10, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com > > <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > This was done because the schematic file format parser would break > > with the forward slash character. I hope to fix this early in the > > v6 development but it's a pain we are going to have to live with > > until the new schematic file format is complete. I wish I had the > > time to do it all at once but it's just wasn't in the cards. I have > > to implement this one piece at a time. There was an announcement on > > this mailing list about it. I apologize for the inconvenience. > > Hopefully it will be short lived. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Wayne > > > > On 05/08/2018 04:40 PM, Kaspar Emanuel wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > looks like a forward slash character in nick names in the > > fp-lib-table is not supported any more (it can be read but it > > cannot be saved). > > > > This breaks compatibility with older fp-lib-tables somewhat. I > > have been using slashes in names to namespace fp-lib-tables > > created for my footprint collection > > <https://github.com/monostable/kicad_footprints > > <https://github.com/monostable/kicad_footprints>>. > > > > Is there a good reason for not allowing slashes in names? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Kaspar > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > > >
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