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Heck yeah, but I guess it's KiCad dev thing and I didn't seem to be able to communicate well with Wayne on launchpad.
If there is a way to use the official library on-demand, like it was on v4, then it would have been nice to make the library tables also update from GH. But that didn't happen. As it is now, KiCad could be more convenient about a situation where the table and files at the path don't match, but that's also something to report to the devs.
Closing now.
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The github plugin will most likely not work in v5. (can't handle one repo for all footprint libs)
The intended way to get new stuff to users is via the new library download webside or they need to clone the 3 repos.
But here also some manual updating might be needed by the user to get the fp-lib-table updated.
Edit: @SchrodingersGat should we remind the packagers that this is the case and they need to include the footprint libs?
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@poeschlr I have reminded them many times and will continue to do so as we approach v5 release! We need to quickly finish the footprints (and symbols) transition :)
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Clarification needed: I'm only thinking about users that use the GH libraries. It was written into a paragraph above but could have been missed. A user may self-manage their libraries and that's fine. But if a user chooses to use the GH libraries it only makes sense to me that their lib tables and the libraries themselves are updated without excessive (or any?) effort.
So maybe this won't work with the current library structure for v5. I would think that requiring users to manually get and update the libraries is undesirable for every single user. A tool that could check for new libraries and then update both tables and library files would satisfy my request.
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I meant "automatic" in the sense that the user didn't have to manually do everything. I didn't mean "automatic" in the sense that the user had absolutely no control.
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@evanshultz this is an old issue, is it still valid ? Thanks, Joel
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