http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/ Kicad Developers Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:52:21 GMT Patrick http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3675 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3675 ... I like the vision of dividing part maintenance away from part usage. But part of the vision needs to be that, if I tar up a project and then untar it two Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:54:27 GMT Dick Hollenbeck http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3674 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3674 ... "Existing tools" can be found in many places. I vote for the parser we already have in the specctra import, and its LineReader input abstraction which can Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:40:58 GMT Wayne Stambaugh http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3673 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3673 ... I agree that the current library and schematic file formats are not very human readable. I believe they are legacy file formats that have been with the Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:00:40 GMT phinitnan_c http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3672 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3672 ... Thank you Wayne, the documents are lied in kicad-doc directory. I also prefer text. Some folks here think that it would be good if the file is more Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:38:47 GMT Patrick http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3671 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3671 ... As Wayne replied, there are no real plans for this, because (except for the separate .dcm files) nobody considers the current format to be broken. It Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:05:56 GMT Wayne Stambaugh http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3670 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3670 ... The only proposed change to the library file format that I am aware of is the one I proposed which is to merge the document file *.dcm with the library Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:56:43 GMT phinitnan_c http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3669 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3669 Hello, Refer to my previous thread, http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3625 and a wiki page about new library system spec, Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:52:21 GMT superlou http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3668 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3668 ... If I understand the tagging points that were brought up earlier, we can dodge the mcu-atmel vs. atmel-mcu holy war by tagging (or in this specific case, Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:52:21 GMT Brian Sidebotham http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3667 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3667 ... In the library editor, editing the value changes the chipname. In the library editor the chipname and value are the same thing, and they should not be. ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:37:45 GMT phinitnan_c http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3666 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3666 ... 1. Better category may not be necessary. We can use a better naming scheme (I think a folk here is working at it) for category. 2. Category is still Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:25:32 GMT jean-pierre.charras@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3665 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3665 Lorenzo a crit : I wanted to try the new AUI look, just for kicks (yes, I know that 2.9 isn't stable) An hell of errors all over the string conversion.. . Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:03:25 GMT Lorenzo http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3664 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3664 ... It's called VALUE exactly for that reason :D ... It's an industry practice. I would actually get confused if it was the way around :P ... There is such a Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:45:34 GMT Lorenzo http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3663 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3663 ... My preferences: 1) a current file-per-category seems adequate to me. And most (all?) of the competition does the same. Of course a good library manager Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:32:36 GMT Lorenzo http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3662 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3662 ... If you want them I've built a mostly IEC-compliant symbol library for eeschema... as for packages I've done them using IPC guidelines (which are not Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:15:29 GMT kajdas http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3661 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/3661 I tried the program on Fedora 10 and I had to do following: cd /usr/lib ln -s libcurl.so.4 libcurl-gnutls.so.4 to resolve the missing library error. Now it