Hi,
is there any recommendation, which legacy library should be used? It seems, that the libs on Github, which are orphaned are not identical with the libs, which can be downloaded from KiCad’s official site.
E.g. https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library vs. http://downloads.kicad.org/libraries/
Greets,
Karl
the later link contains snapshot packages from the kicad-library repo (plus the footprint and 3d libs)
More details see https://kicad.org/libraries/download/
And: How can i install a specific version of the footprint library?
You need to checkout the 4.0.7 tagged commit. (Or whatever version you desire) https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/tags
To answer your question in the title: As long as you use a workflow where you can control which version you get, you should be ok. (Meaning: do not use the github plugin for footprint libs as this gives you no control.)
To be honest, I’ve used the zip download for the footprints, because it’s way more convenient, than to clone all .pretty repos separately.
On the other hand, I think using the latest symbols lib (v4, from Github) would be better, since it would be more complete, right? I would prefer to do that also with the footprints. Is there something like a super-repo for the footprints available?
After 4.0.7 we started with a reorganization. So a few libs have been renamed. And the logic libs got a major update.
There is something better. We have a script that can manage all libs via git. https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library-utils/blob/master/download_pretty_libs.py
If you really want the latest a backport for the v5 libs will come soonish. (After v5 rc2 release.)
Great! And this only belongs to Lib v4? If so, this should be mentioned somewhere in the script…
Done
And a few more characters to make the forum software happy
Thanks. I did an upgrade of our kicad4-footprints repo, which is a consolidated repo, just like in lib v5.
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