Re: gEDA-user: footprints

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:11:22AM +0000, Marc Price wrote:
> Ive tried multiple times now using Grep to find the footprint for a 
> resistor i add it and it doesnt work! every time i try it either uses 
> the wrong footprint or says error, surely a footprint selector of some 
> sort needs to be added to either gattrib or gschem in order to simplify 
> this process.
> 
> Sorry i got to say this i like the look and feel of gEDA but no common 
> sense has gone into making these programs work together.

You could fix this by saving all m4 footprints as newlib and starting
your new fork of PCB project with this. It should not be too much work,
especially if automated, and increase the comfort tremendously. I
estimate it's unlikely the developers will do it because this theme will
trigger an avalanche of discussions and cause them to be paralyzed by
analysis paralysis.

If you fix several more usability hitches and improve the website, you
may quite easily end up having more popularity than the original
project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis

CL<