Re: gEDA: PCB creeping feature addition suggestion

[Dan McMahill <dan@mcmahill.net>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:43:23AM +0000, Karel Kulhav? wrote:
> Hello
> 
> It's obviously a hard problem to determine footprint= attribute for
> a part arbitrarily chosen from PCB library.
> 
> I suggest (in the spirit of creeping-featurism ;-) ) a feature addition into
> PCB: that the pcb-bin-library window would have a third column that would
> display the necessary footprint= attribute for the given part. Macro aatributes
> in the style "DIL 16 300" would have a description in the style of "DIL <number
> of pins> <distance between rows in mils>"
 

for "newlib" style libraries, its already there!  The name in the library window
is what you want for footprint=

for "oldlib" style libraries, its a bit trickier due to the way the M4 parameters
are setup.  I'll think about it a bit and see if I have any great ideas.

-Dan

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