Re: gEDA: PCB creeping feature addition suggestion

[Dan McMahill <dan@mcmahill.net>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:04:19AM +0000, Karel Kulhav? wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:05:06PM -0400, Dan McMahill wrote:
> > 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>"
> > > 
> > 
> > something like:
> > 
> > 

I'll try again but sending the patch as an attachment.  I think there was some
space/tab mangling before.  The patch is against the latest CVS sources although
you can probably make it apply (perhaps manually) to anything recent.

-Dan

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