Aha, I did not know that the COW was working like that. Seems to work fine from the limited testing I just did. I do think that the need for existing dirs that allow_pretty_writing_to_this_dir specify is a bit strange, but I guess it is well thought out. It would become quite tedious to create the handfull of libs (or all) manually.
I wonder if there is any posibility or scheme to make it cache by default somewhere. I know this is problematic, if it actually do perform COW and will not sync anymore. I hope I have understood the COW functionality correctly. 2014-11-03 21:56 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]>: > It's called copy on write and it already exits in the github plugin. No > tuning necessary. You just need to configure your fp-lib-table to take > advantage of it. It is well documented the "Using the GitHub Plugin" > section of both the CvPcb and Pcbnew reference manuals. > > On 11/3/2014 3:27 PM, Jean-Paul Louis wrote: >> Hi Nick, >> >> The best would be to tune the github plugin to do just that. Access the >> footprints from git and have them stored locally, so changes would be >> faster, and user could work when not online. >> I thought that it was planned to have that working already (github access >> with local storage of data). >> >> Just my $0.02, >> Jean-Paul >> AC9GH >> >> On Nov 3, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Nick Østergaard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Jean-Samuel >>> >>> Aha, that makes sense. >>> >>> Maybe the following is a bad idea, but anyway -- here goes. >>> With that I guess one could even make a script that is cloning and >>> updating the kicad footprints from github and chaching them also. >>> >>> Nick >>> >>> 2014-11-03 18:28 GMT+01:00 Jean-Samuel Reynaud <[email protected]>: >>>> Hi Nick, >>>> >>>> Sorry I'm not always clear in my explaination... >>>> >>>> This plugin provide a gateway to custom plugin writen in python. >>>> For example you can write a new plugin in python to fetch some footprint >>>> from a database for example... >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Le 03/11/2014 17:37, Nick Østergaard a écrit : >>>>> Hi Jean-Samuel >>>>> >>>>> What exactly does this do? I guess a section for the documentation has >>>>> to be written to describe the purpose or functionality of this option. >>>>> >>>>> Does this plugin then run a python script that magically creates the >>>>> footprint you have in mind or? Does this provide a gateway to make >>>>> some custom plugin to fetch footprints from various sources from a >>>>> simple python? >>>>> >>>>> Sorry for all the questionmarks, but I don't quite get what exactly >>>>> this is. (I have not tried it yet) >>>>> >>>>> Nick >>>>> >>>>> 2014-11-03 15:14 GMT+01:00 Jean-Samuel Reynaud <[email protected]>: >>>>>> Hi All, >>>>>> >>>>>> I wrote few months ago an extension to be able to write in python a >>>>>> footprint library plugin. >>>>>> ie: for the moment for footprint you have to choice between: >>>>>> - Kicad >>>>>> - Legacy >>>>>> - GitHub >>>>>> ... >>>>>> And I had write a "Python". You choose the python module to load (the >>>>>> module name as an option of the python plugin) and this python >>>>>> module have to implement some functions to do the job. >>>>>> >>>>>> This code is currently under a branch : >>>>>> lp:~kicad-developers/kicad/python_plugin >>>>>> >>>>>> Specific code is mainly in pcbnew/fppython/ and there is a python >>>>>> example in pcbnew/fppython/fppython_example.py. >>>>>> >>>>>> I regularly merge with upstream to maintain this branch up to date. >>>>>> I cleanned up the code to meet coding standard. >>>>>> >>>>>> Is it possible to merge on main branch ? >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
