Re: gEDA-user: Text in PCB elements

[John Coppens <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:09:45 +0100
Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > If footprints are extended to allow text elements to be included, then
> > I really hope that general polygons will be allowed too.
> 
> plus arcs, two layers of silk, lines in copper, vias, mid layers, ...
> In short: The footprint format should allow everything you can do in a 
> layout. I see no point in arbitrary restrictions.

That was mainly what I was wondering about in the first place.
Shouldn't footprints be something like functions in programming? Or
maybe slightly more similar to macros?

John


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