[kicad-users] ANN: Haskell kicad-data package 0.5.0

[Kaspar Emanuel [e-mail] [kicad-users]]

Hi all,

I have just released the Haskell kicad-data package version 0.5.0.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/kicad-data-0.5.0

We have now actually seen some use of this library in the wild in the form
of ppelleti/footprint-to-script
<https://github.com/ppelleti/footprint-to-script> which converts a KiCad
footprint to a KicadModTree
<https://github.com/pointhi/kicad-footprint-generator> Python script.

kicad-data can still only parse and write .kicad_mod files but has been
fixed to work against over 38,000 of them
<https://github.com/monostable/kicad_footprints>. Minor changes listed
below:

- Add support for *.Fab layers
- Add support for die_length pad attribute
- Fix issue with comment character output
- Simplify s-expression parser (now supports all KiCad s-expression
formats)

Cheers,

Kaspar
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