Please, please, PLEASE support KiCad with this! I use octopart pretty extensively and have loved it so far. I would be fanatical if you guys had KiCad footprints and symbols as it is the only decent EDA tool that is on all three major OSes.
I have installed it on OS X before. The dev branch had problems installing on OS X, but as of today actually someone put up a dmg that supposedly works (I follow the KiCad dev list).
Gotta say, there are lots of Kicad dmgs out there, but I have yet to see one actually work well. I'm not sure I've even seen one described as working well by the person posting it.
That is the thread I am talking about! Everyone on OS X seemed excited, but I'm not sure that means it is working well yet. I will reply here soon if it is a good installer.
@reportsingsjr - Chris here from WAi (contributor)
As Sam mentioned about, this is definitely something they'll be working on. If you use some of these parts and have a known working footprint, I'm sure they'd appreciate your help.
I'll second the motion for KiCAD footprints and symbols!
There is not a good central repository for KiCAD parts, and on the client side the process for managing components or creating new ones is very convoluted. KiCAD is tremendously useful, but its creators need to take a serious look at usability. A cloud-based parts library would be a killer feature, along with drop-in public domain circuit "modules" (comprised of several to many connected components).
The development version of KiCad actually pulls the footprint library from github. It is significantly updated and quite a lot better than it used to be. Still has a long way to go, but it really is so much better than it was even a year ago.
As Sam mentioned about, this is definitely something they'll be working on. If you use some of these parts and have a known working footprint, I'm sure they'd appreciate your help.
