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Human Readable Library Paths #11

Closed ouabache closed 5 years ago

ouabache commented 6 years ago

The use of UUID's as directory names is not human friendly at all.

librePCD.orgResistorsresistor is as unique as 75372c18-3ba4-42e8-b3b2-2eb5039d4 and a lot easier to follow.

Anytime a UUID is presented to the user it should be mapped back to its author,library and component names.

John Eaton

hephaisto commented 6 years ago

I agree that it is not user-friendly when working on the files manually.

However, as far as I understand, the general idea is to reference anything by its UUID, so it is consistent to do so also on the directory level. Also, there would be need for a big lookuptable that maps some arbitrary tuple of attributes to an UUID. If this is really a big deal for usability, it would be easy to write a script that creates symlinks from a name to an UUID.

ubruhin commented 5 years ago

This issue was moved to https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/human-readable-library-paths/30