On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 13:14 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:02:07 +0200
> I can't see any reason NOT to use the skip-m4 option. Every footprint
> in the default pcb library is available as a newlib-format footprint,
> right?
Actually (and sadly), no.. there are some naming clashes with the way
the M4 macro names were converted, so some are not in the newlib format.
200.fp such a wonderfully descriptive name.. ;)
It might be an example of a clash (I recall there were with similar
naming), but I can't remember weactly which one.
> Advantages of using skip-m4:
>
> + Avoids that nasty bug that occurs when a footprint name contains a
> hyphen character ("-").
Which is now fixed anyway.
> Disadvantages of using skip-m4:
>
> - Can't use your own custom m4 footprints directly?
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