- Original Message -
> From: László Monda
> To: Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo
> Cc: KiCad Developers
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 8:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] GITHUB_PLUGIN
>
> I may be joining too late but having some ideas.
>
> First of all let me just say that I'm in lo
To me it's really not a question of which VCS is the better (I know
next to nothing about Bazaar and although git is more popular the two
seem largely similar to me - one can read a ton about the issue at
https://www.google.com/search?q=bazaar+vs+git )
What rather matters is the huge added value o
>
> On a somewhat related note I'm wondering why KiCad isn't hosted on
> GitHub. Given the popularity of GitHub it could give the project
> better visibility and let's not even speak about the ultimate joy of
> how easy it is to merge pull requests.
>
I find the github site easier to use than the
>> -- Because this is a filesystem we can't have more than one footprint
>> in a given directory with a given name. If we wanted to have more than
>
> A rule like 'no same named footprint per library' is reasonable.
> Precedence between libraries is AFAIK one of the reason for the new fp
> table (I
I may be joining too late but having some ideas.
First of all let me just say that I'm in love with this concept. I
consider GitHub to be the most robust and fertile software ecosystem
of our days. Leveraging it could be hugely productive as opposed to
invent a whole new platform. (I have no pr
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 01:58:33PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I should have qualified that with the utf8 character set because
> internally all of our file parsers work on utf8 encoded files.
There's a *slight* imprecision in that. With UTF8 *encoding* (character
set is Unicode, ISO 10646-1).
Nils,
You may also want to take a look at
http://www.compuphase.com/electronics/kicadlibrarian_en.htm
I'm not sure whether you've heard about it but in my opinion this is
the most complete footprint generator to this day.
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Nils Hesse wrote:
> Dick,
> I'll look in
On 8/21/2013 12:39 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:20:28AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> make sure your file names are valid on all platforms. I think there are
>> a few characters that are valid on *nix that are not valid on windows.
I should have qualified that wi
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:20:28AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> make sure your file names are valid on all platforms. I think there are
> a few characters that are valid on *nix that are not valid on windows.
This is the authoritative source:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177506
The POSIX
On 8/21/2013 1:38 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:03:54PM -0400, Chris Morgan wrote:
>> one part footprint per-file, and use of the new s-expression format. I
>> was wondering though why this format isn't the default yet? I have a
>> June stable build.
>
> AFAIK the cod
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:52:38AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> AFAIK WX_OVERLAY is for use by OSX only due to some display issues. If
> there are wxOverlays without the conditional build #ifdef WX_OVERLAY,
> this could be a problem. Any of you OSX developers care to comment on this?
There ar
On 8/19/2013 2:43 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> I'm trying to refactor the common movement key handling. Also there is
> a cursor xor glitch when the screen moves. The relevant code at the
> moment is duplicated around the frames in the abstract GeneralControl
> method.
>
> I suppose that the F
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:14:04AM -0400, Chris Morgan wrote:
> - Using the filename to build the footprint name sounds like a great idea.
Also the sanest one, IMHO
> - Lorenzo, your writeup is good and you should put that up on a kicad
> wiki somewhere. I'd feel bad if your write up wasn't used
Dick, Lorenzo,
Replying in one email to avoid forking things into two threads.
- Using the filename to build the footprint name sounds like a great idea.
- Lorenzo, your writeup is good and you should put that up on a kicad
wiki somewhere. I'd feel bad if your write up wasn't used elsewhere as
I
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 02:57:22PM +0200, Nils Hesse wrote:
> I'm happy that this really could be usefull to someone. I would like to
> create more footprint wizards and/or other plugins/scripts for KiCAD in the
> future.
> The code isn't really that much by the way, most of the code is
> "houseke
Dick,
I'll look into that und hopefully provide my changes as a patch within the
next few days, thank you.
Lorenzo,
I'm happy that this really could be usefull to someone. I would like to
create more footprint wizards and/or other plugins/scripts for KiCAD in the
future.
The code isn't really that
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