gEDA-dev: footprint cleanup

[Igor2]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Dan McMahill wrote:

>Timmerman, Bert wrote:
>> Hi Igor2 and Dan,
>> 
>> I agree, if it's not clear or suitable, the average user/newbie would
>> start with the creation of a newlib footprint.
>> 
>> I once looked at an m4 file and decided it was not for me.
>> 
>> A footprint generator that can be invoked with pcb would also be handy
>> (some kind of gui hid module/wrapper around m4).
>
>Then why not provide a more generic "run this command and load the 
>element that the command spits out" action instead of having pcb needing 
>to know about m4 calls?

This why i suggest something hid-like for elements. One module would use
newlib (just reading the file and return its content trough the api),
another would run m4 or whatever and return the content generated trough
the same api.

Igor2