gEDA-dev: PCB Library regression

[Peter Clifton]

On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 20:19 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > If the generator were to have a list of footprints provided by the
> > script, would it have to modify ListLibraryContents.sh to enumerate its
> > (possibly dynamic) list of footprints as well?
> 
> PCB uses two separate programs, one for extracting and one for
> listing.  The two programs are QueryLibrary.sh (lib-command) and
> ListLibraryContents.sh (lib-contents-command).
> 
> $ pcb -h 2>&1 | grep command
>  --font-command <string>       
>  --file-command <string>        Command to read a file.
>  --element-command <string>    
>  --lib-command-dir <string>    
>  --lib-command <string>        
>  --lib-contents-command <string>
>  --save-command <string>       
>  --rat-command <string>        
>  --save-last-command           
>  --lprcommand <string>          Command to print

Thanks for the info. Its all very Unix'y :)

I'm seeing that multiple methods of getting footprints would have to
co-operate at the LibraryListContents.sh / QueryLibrary.sh level though.

A project for another day I think...

Goodnight!

Peter C.