Library table chaining
Description
We should support symbol and footprint library table chaining: one table should be able to include another table. This would make some workflows easier, for example:
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If a user installs the KiCad libraries from Git, they can simply add a pointer to the library tables provided by those libraries in their main library tables, rather than having to merge the tables together
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Sets of libraries can be collected and distributed by users more easily (since any set can provide a table instead of asking the user to add many entries to their own table for each library in the set)
KiCad Version
Application: Eeschema
Version: (5.99.0-929-gb4786e412), debug build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.64.1 SecureTransport (LibreSSL/2.8.3) zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.39.2
Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 19.3.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
Build Info:
Build date: Feb 24 2020 11:01:42
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.69.0
Curl: 7.64.1
Compiler: Clang 11.0.0 with C++ ABI 1002
Build settings:
KICAD_SCRIPTING=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=OFF
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=OFF
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON
KICAD_STDLIB_DEBUG=OFF
KICAD_STDLIB_LIGHT_DEBUG=OFF
KICAD_SANITIZE=OFF