kicad symbols and footprint version branches?

[Mika Laitio]

Hi

I am building both the v6 and v7 kicad versions and want to verify that I
am using correct branches for builds

1) For v6 daily builds is it ok to use
- kicad-symbols/origin/v6 branch
- kicad-footprints/origin/master
- kicad-packages3D/origin/master

2) For v7 daily builds
- kicad-symbols/origin/master
- kicad-footprints/origin/master
- kicad-packages3D/origin/master

3) kicad-symbols and kicad-footprints has now new origin/nightly-rolling
branch. What is it's purpose compared to the master branch?

[Kliment (Future Bits)]

Hi, sorry for the confusion there.

The symbols repo has been migrated to v7. You should no longer use the
master branch from symbols for v6 dailies (as you noticed). Footprints
have not yet been migrated in format, but will be eventually and already
contain references to v7 paths. 3d models will not be migrated as they
are not version-specific. As there have been major reorganizations to
the library pending v7 release, and we're mid-migration, I would
recommend the following:

1. For v6 daily builds, use the latest tagged v6 release for the library
repos instead of master. You can use the v6 branches on symbols and
footprint repos if you like, but those contain some significant changes
compared to released versions, and may be disruptive to users.

2. For v7 daily builds, use master. Symbols master was in an
inconsistent state the last few days and required a force push post
migration to clean up, but is now good to use again.

As for 3. we are experimenting with a format conversion CI tool that
will automatically convert everything to latest format. This may end up
being used for future (post-v7) nightly versions, so they have libraries
in their native format and we can spot conversion-related issues. Those
are in the nightly-rolling branches, but only updated when manually
triggered. Do not use for now.

Kliment

[Kliment (Future Bits)]

On 20.01.23 11:53, Mika Laitio wrote:

Small addition to my previous answer - we now have a v6 branch on
packages3d as well as we pushed a breaking change to some models that
makes them incompatible with their corresponding v6 footprints. So you
should ideally use the latest v6 tag for all three repos for v6 builds.

Kliment

[Mika Laitio]

Thanks for clarifying things.

Mika

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