Re: gEDA-user: LED 100 != 5mm LED ?

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 08:25 +0100, Bert Timmerman wrote:
>
>
> > The directories have not been merged, that is, m4 derived footprints in the
> > newlib format live in lib/pcblib-newlib and the newlib contains the
> > footprints according to the newlib format.
> >
> > Confused, you won't be after the next episode of this soap ...   ;-)   (no
> > pun intended)
>
>
> What is confusing about M4.. sure, the language is a bit opaque, but you
> don't have to write it in normal usage. Buggy M4 symbols are still buggy
> with the new system, it is just less flexible for generating footprints
> on the fly.
>
> The only benefit seen, is that since the footprints are converted one by
> one, you don't see bugs relating to variables which are set and left
> lying around during the M4 invocation.

The old mechanism is in place still and I have no real plans on removing 
it.  The goals were to provide footprints in a way that didn't depend on 
m4 at runtime for systems like windows, avoid some of the bugs relating 
to variables left around, and for some bizarre reason people seem to 
trust newlib footprints more apparently just because they don't use m4 
at runtime.

-Dan



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