From: Nathael Pajani Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 10:32:13 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Adding a README to the base repository X-Git-Url: http://git.techno-innov.fr/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f9794fd110094b8b3fd5b781c6ad64fcb3a83123;p=elec%2Fbase%2Flib Adding a README to the base repository --- diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..79d56e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +This repository holds the libraries used by projects and boards designed by + Techno-Innov. + +It should be used as a base directory to hold our projects, which you should + clone in a sub-directory of your choice (we use those mentioned in the + .gitignore file, but any directory name will do the job). + +We are not using "official" KiCaD libraries due to the constant changes in + KiCaD formats, library contents and organisation between versions, making + old boards incompatible with new versions of KiCaD. +It is also not guaranted by KiCaD that a given part definition will not + change from time to time, and we do not want to track changes from the + community for each and every component before updating a board. + Tracking our changes is already quite a big amount of work. +Feel free to use it for your projects, or switch between our libs to KiCaD + libs at your convenience, but we do not provide support for our libraries + or for any incompatibility between our libraries and KiCaD ones.