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Re: gEDA: CAD Library of the Future
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On Tuesday 13 December 2005 08:34 am, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Renaming the footprints may cause havoc with existing designs. I
> wouldn't do it. Rather, I'd do this:
>
> 1. Add the new footprints/footprint names to the newlib dir.
> 2. After one year, move the old ones to a separate directory called
> newlib-oldnames or some such.
It would be better to have a directory that contains only
IPC-7351 parts, add additional directories as new standards emerge.
In the contract manufacturing environment it is not uncommon
to have to update a design many years later. So whatever
time you pick for "after one year", it will be wrong.
On Tuesday 13 December 2005 08:42 am, John Luciani wrote:
>I would create symlinks to the old ones. This way the new names and
>the old names can coexist.
Symlinks are not supported on all platforms. I am using an index file
to work around that problem in wxPCB.