On 11/3/2014 4:58 PM, Blair Bonnett wrote: > On 4 November 2014 10:19, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On 11/3/2014 4:09 PM, Blair Bonnett wrote: >> > On 4 November 2014 09:43, Adam Wolf <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> >> > <mailto:[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. > > libgit2 claims to build with zero dependencies for both MinGW and native > Windows builds. I'll be interested to see how it works in reality.
I haven't tried it so I cannot comment on it. If anyone has use a native windows build of libgit2, please let us know if it works reliably. I don't want to introduce a dependency that doesn't work on all supported platforms. > >>> 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. > > Unfortunately their software is not freely available -- they do sell an > enterprise version, but thats a little out of my price range. Assuming > the github plugin doesn't hardcode any URLs then I imagine it would work > with an enterprise install since the API etc should be the same. Darn! It was worth a shot. > >> >> > >> > 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] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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
