Re: gEDA-user: Metric PCB footprints using 1mil grid

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suggest just adding a statement in the documentation and perhaps in
gsch2pcb that using the m4 (or other low resolution) libraries is
deprectated and not recomended for new designs. 

Steve Meier

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 19:10 +0200, Wojciech Kazubski wrote:
> I propose to split old (m4) libraries into separate package. Then noone would be forced to have them and anyone will use only those libraries he wants/needs (maybe better ones?).
> 
> Wojciech Kazubski
> 
> > Here, we never ever use them.
> > 
> > Dumping the low resolution land patterns would encourage replacement.
> > 
> > Steve Meier
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 11:03 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > > > My suggestion would be to just dump the old libraries. Why build new
> > > > boards with obsolete land patterns.
> > > 
> > > Because that particular library is ~geda, the one with all the really
> > > useful common footprints in it.
> > > 
> > > What we need to do is replace them, not just dump them.
> > > 
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