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.

That's exactly what happened to me in the early days when I attempted to
use the m4. Simple grep is not enough. You have to basically reverse
engineer the sources in the m4 languages. Good luck.

And that's what I did then. I fortunately don't have to handle this
anymore because I already cracked those few footprints that are of
usability for my projects and I copy them from design to design using
copy-paste engineering method. The rest are SMD (the last one I did is
almost 100% SMD :) ) and self-made footprints.

Especially finding out the numeric arguments is funny. Of course the
developers will argue with you that it's actually easy, because they
know the source code by heart ;-)

CL<
> 
> 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.
> 
> Marc >:o