Re: gEDA-user: Questions concerning footprints and libraries

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 1. In the schematic should I use  "footprint=1206.fp"  or 
> "footprint=1206" ? Does the ".fp" extension designate the newer footprints?

.fp is a convention I added when I set up gedasymbols.org, as the web
server needed some standard suffix in order to add a handler for them.
So far, nothing treats that suffix specially - yet.  I'm recommending
new footprints have the ".fp" on them, mostly so you know they're
footprints and not, say, Makefiles ;-)

> 2. Under the pcblib-newlib directory, there are two locations for the 
> 1206.fp footprint;  1) geda and 2) generic. Is this a problem and how 
> does PCB handle this?

PCB doesn't.  When you load from the library, you specify exactly
which one you want.  Once it's loaded, there's no reference to where
it came from any more - it's embedded.  gsch2pcb is the other way to
get footprints into your design; I don't know what algorithm it uses
to choose.

> I have noticed there are more than a few duplicated footprints sprinkled 
> throughout the footprint libraries ? I can go in and make custom 
> footprints for everything but that kind of defeats the purpose. Is there 
> a particular directory that I should be choosing my footprints from ?

I use the ~geda library a lot, plus my own footprint library (on
gedasymbols.org)


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