[TriEmbed] getting KiCAD to use a local copy of the github library

[Brian]

KiCAD's Github library management is a little short-sighted.  Unless 
they've fixed it recently, the github "plugin" (they aren't really 
plugins, but that's another story) doesn't cache, and the first one to 
fail will stop the rest of the libraries from loading.  It's a rather 
rickety setup, IMNSHO.

I've got my own fork of KiCAD to which I've added RDBMS library 
support...perhaps I'll take a look at making the github plugin more 
robust as well.  There're a number of things I'd like to make better 
about it.

Cheers,
-Brian

On 01/25/2017 03:51 PM, Alex Davis via TriEmbed wrote:
> I've been struggling with getting KiCAD to use a local copy of the
> github library repo. At the office I'm behind a proxy, and the suggested
> setting of a user or system variable for HTTPS_PROXY has not worked (and
> yes I do know you may have to log off first).
> - run pcbnew
> - from 'Preferences' menu select 'Footprint Libraries Wizard'
> - check 'files on my computer'
>
> but it seems in this way you have to browse to and select one library at
> a time. No way!
>
> I think I will just take this particular laptop home where it can clone
> it from github directly the way it wants.
>
> I'm going to see this damn hackaday tutorial to the end, but by then I
> might hate KiCAD. We shall see!
>
> Alex
>