Parsing errors in stable KiCAD about kicad_footprints HOT 9 CLOSED

Well, if you use a nightly build of KiCAD those footprints will load fine. It makes sense to me if the master of this repo tracks the master of KiCAD repo and there is a stable branch that tracks stable. We can still check both of those in CI with appropriate KiCAD versions.

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Hmm, seems like this is a problem with the footprints mentioned. The first one opens fine in the FP editor for me though. What happens when you try and open them in the FP editor direct?

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No luck with lowstar's one, all the rest load fine 👍

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I looked at the file. It's got a roundedrect in it which isn't supported on stable as far as I know. Looks like I am actually running a nightly right now.

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Could add a ./stabilize command to remove any files that can't be loaded in stable version of KiCAD. This script could work as a start.

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Good idea! If kicad can operate in headless mode somehow I would go for TravisCI actually.

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The linked script is run on TravisCI actually but I still want to include the libraries using new features in general so I was thinking about a command for the user to "stabilize" the their local clone.

Maybe it would be better to keep separate branches though and have CI take care of it. Master could keep adding repos with new features which CI turns into a stable branch. People who use stable could then git clone -b stable

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Hm, I would prefer keeping everything CI'd into master, so that errors are spotted and users are aware of which footprints fail... after all, not all users are using all footprints all the time, so it's not that critical to have a stable branch and it's non-standard/confusing, IMHO, also btw see:

freetronics/freetronics_kicad_library#4

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Nice one @brainstorm, I have put up a stable branch and both branches are now being checked with Travis. More details are in the README. Thanks for reporting!

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