Central Part Repository

[Drachenkaetzchen]

It would be nice to have a central footprint repository, preferably linked with Octopart.

[andete]

I agree. It's even in the FAQ.
However I want to focus my effort on the core of the program.
If someone feels like setting up a git repo for parts or something like that, that would be great.

[Drachenkaetzchen]

Sorry for not reading the FAQ.

Sure, that's vaild. Not a github repository, but some kind of web service where one can submit parts or load them directly from the GUI.

[matthijskooijman]

Why not a github repo? Sounds like an easy way to share things - just use pullreqs for uploading stuff. Gets you a review process for free :-)

[Drachenkaetzchen]

Well, git is pretty complicated for most users. If the app would take over the git management stuff, it would be cool. But it's way easier to have a list of footprints and retrieving them on demand.

[andete]

I'm not really a gui person, I find commandline git to be extremely easy to use ;)

[Drachenkaetzchen]

Different persons different demands :) I'm kinda in the middle of things, I love to use git but when I got a GUI app I don't really like to switch to a CLI. But of course, this is not a killer feature and maybe I find some time to implement this as pull request.

[andete]

For another program (a now abandoned part management tool) I implemented git integration in python by simply executing git commands and it worked fine. (Only tested on Linux)

[matthijskooijman]

Hm, just discovered Kicad now also has (still unreleased) support for loading footprints from github repositories. There they also implement the loading from github part, not the sending part.

[andete]

Yeah, and they also have python scripting. It might be cool to be able to load madparts footprints with on-demand conversion.

[matthijskooijman]

Ah, indeed. Referring back to #80, might even be cool if you could refer to a component "Madparts:CONN(2, 5, 2.54)", which would then auto-generate a connector of 2x5 pins at 2.54mm pitch by calling the "CONN" file with those parameters :-)

[andete]

That would be great indeed!

[andete]

As in madparts 2.0 all the library management code will be gone this issue is no longer relevant.