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Re: gEDA-user: footprints

Karel Kulhavy wrote: 
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.


This is an example of where you seem to go out of your way to be rude.

For your information, this has actually been implemented and just needs some testing. You might also have noted that it has been mentioned on this list that such a thing was under way.

I'll note that on the topic of footprints and a few other items, nothing has been done not because of "analysis paralysis" but because we do this in our free time which is limited and because I've seen the results of jumping in with coding and putting a lot of effort when there was a poor or no up front design.

Perhaps you think no design is required for these systems?

You could help the situation if you would actually take up some these issues and actually contribute some work to get them done rather than spending your time spewing insults.

-Dan