Hi, Anyway, this gateway plugin for custom plugin writen in python is ready (for me). So my initial question is about the possibility to integrate it in main branch (merge) ?
Le 03/11/2014 22:19, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : > On 11/3/2014 4:09 PM, Blair Bonnett wrote: >> On 4 November 2014 09:43, Adam Wolf <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> Before we get too far down that path, I think there is a better set of >> tools for caching >>> Github results locally--git. >>> >>> I work relatively often from airplanes or countries with poor internet >> access, so I use >>> scripts to copy stuff locally. >>> >>> To be completely honest, I have been confused as to why Dick went >> straight for a >>> particular Git host's API, as compared to using Git itself. Disk >> space, maybe? >>> I am one of the users (like Bernhard, I guess) who doesn't really like >> using the >>> Github plugin, and uses data on disk instead. Git provides a way for >> me to quickly >>> download the new work Carl and the other library folks have done. >>> >>> If someone wants to talk about this more, I'm up for it. >> I'm with you on this -- I love GitHub, but it would also be nice to use >> local Git repositories, e.g., for a set of common components that are >> stocked in our department and for which the footprints have been >> checked. Offline support via caching would also be good -- I'll admit I >> haven't played with the copy-on-write option Wayne mentions, but from >> the manual it sounds like it only saves local copies of footprints you >> edit rather than the whole library. >> >> To this end, some time ago I was playing around with writing a basic Git >> plugin working using libgit2 [1] to interface with the repository i.e., >> no external git executable required. At that stage I only had >> authentication-less HTTP cloning working, but libgit2 supports basic >> username + password and SSH authentication. Further down the track it >> could also support writing changes back to a repository. > I'm not opposed to adding a git plugin to Pcbnew. It would make git a > dependency which can be problematic on Windows. Most of the windows git > builds I have seen require msys which uses Posix like paths which could > be a problem. You may have to translate paths on windows to make this > work correctly unless you can find a native version of git. > > I wonder if you could you set up a local github server on your system > (assuming the github server software is freely available) and point the > github plugin to 127.0.0.1? It might be an interesting experiment. > >> Its currently got a couple of bugs in it and is based against a rather >> old version of KiCad. I'll have a crack at rebasing and fixing those >> bugs soon -- I might get a chance tonight otherwise it may have to be >> the weekend -- and posting it here for others to try out. >> >> Blair >> >> [1] https://libgit2.github.com/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
