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Alarm-Siren / arduino-kicad-library

KiCad Symbol & Footprint Library for Arduino Modules (Shields, Sockets and Tiles)
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KiCad 7 PCM compatibility updates #73

Closed Alarm-Siren closed 1 year ago

Alarm-Siren commented 1 year ago

KiCad 7's PCM now has features to automatically add new libraries to the global libraries table by default (though the option is configurable). However, it does so in a way that is not compatible with this library in that, by default, it prefixes the nickname with PCM_ - this means that the automatic selection of the correct footprint by default does not work.

Action Plan:

Note: changing to match v7's default settings shouldn't cause a breaking change for anyone who has already manually installed the library on v6, therefore this can be a minor release.

Alarm-Siren commented 1 year ago

Turns out changing to match v7's default settings will cause a problem for KiCad 6 users who already have this library configured (the footprint default links will break), therefore this must be a Major release. Annoyingly.