Re: gEDA-user: footprint creation war

["Phil Taylor" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Randall,

I was talking about file type footprints.  Are you using python to make m4
scripts or to make file-type footprints?

Phil


Randall Nortman <geda-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hear, hear!  I found it very inconvenient to try to make footprints
> graphically.  But after struggling with using m4 macros to do it, I
> ultimately just made myself a python library that gives me a few
> functions that make it easy to generate most footprints
> programmatically.  I posted the scripts here a while back, though
> there doesn't seem to have been much interest.
> 
> Whether you do it programmatically or by hand in a text editor, it
> seems far more reliable (in terms of precision) than drawing them, and
> not really any slower.  In fact, if you are working from a