Re: gEDA-user: PCB & Gschem

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc Price wrote:
> I Guess i got to say footprint= but still havent worked out what for 
> diodes resistors capacitors
> also wouldnt it make sense for Gschem to have a drop down list of 
> footprints and you just select the one you want .

so which footprint library do you want to use?  Only the ones 
distributed with PCB?  Only the ones in Johns library?  Perhaps only IPC 
compliant names even if we dont' have PCB footprints?  There are people 
using gschem for board design who are not using PCB as the layout tool 
so I'd imagine their valid choices will be different and there are many 
using PCB who maintain their own footprint library.

To top that off, what do you do about parts like say a 10H116 which 
comes in a PLCC20 or a DIP-16.  The pin out is different for the 2 packages.

Don't get me wrong, this is a frustration for many people and I'd love 
to see a clean and simple solution, but there are some real issues to be 
addressed before any sort of useful solution can be put in place.

I think the best approach for the near term though is just to have a big 
list of all the available footprints from which ever library you care to 
use on hand at schematic creation time.

-Dan