Unintentional footprint file format change? Library name now included in footprint name.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Jeff Young |
Bug Description
It seems the footprint editor now includes the library name in the first line of the file. In the past only footprint export did this.
If this is intended to stay for kicad 5 then all footprints in the official lib need to be updated. We would also need to update all our helper tools and the library convention.
This must be quite new as i made a pull request to the footprint lib about a month ago and did not observe this. (Or there is some hidden setting that i do not know about.)
My kicad version (ubuntu nightly from today)
Application: kicad
Version: 5.0.0-rc2-
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.2
libcurl/7.47.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.32 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.13.0-41-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (wchar_t,wx containers,
Boost: 1.58.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.8.0
Curl: 7.47.0
Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 with C++ ABI 1009
Build settings:
USE_
USE_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
BUILD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_SPICE=ON
summary: |
- Unintentional file footprint format change? Library name now included in + Unintentional footprint file format change? Library name now included in footprint name. |
Changed in kicad: | |
assignee: | nobody → Jeff Young (jeyjey) |
milestone: | none → 5.0.0-rc2 |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
I am guessing it is a side effect of an other change.
I do not see any good reason to write a nickname in this footprint file.