gEDA-user: Metric units [Was: Re: Open GL survey (for PCB)]

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 15:21 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > > Metric-only library. (it's imposibble, i know :))
> > 
> > Not _im_possible.. so long as its a very very small metric unit which
> > gets used.
> 
> It's not practical, either, unless you only have metric parts.

Didn't we come to the view at some point, that using a sufficiently
small metric unit internally would work fine?

(Due to the definition of 1" = 2.54cm allowing us to precisely specify
both metric and imperial units, given a sufficiently small metric unit?)


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Peter Clifton

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