Re: gEDA-user: footprint name's max length

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dan,


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>Actually he said "gschem2xpcb" which is YAFAT (yet another forward 
>annotation tool).


	Ah, yes.  I am generally blind to all 'x' characters. :)
Thanks for the correction.


>But yes, use gsch2pcb instead of gschem2pcb or gschem2xpcb.  The former 
>is much more widely used and supported.  I think the main complaint 
>which caused gschem2xpcb to exist is that gsch2pcb places all footprints 
>on top of each other but PCB has an action to disperse elements.

	Agreed.  gsch2pcb is more likely to be maintained and is far more
widely used.  Plus it's GPL which is just plain nice. :)

								-Ales