Re: gEDA-user: Questions concerning footprints and libraries

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DJ Delorie wrote:
> > 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 ;-)

gsch2pcb (in the lastest geda/gaf snapshot will look for the .fp.  If yo 
specify "footprint=myfootprint" it will look for "myfootprint" and if 
not found "myfootprint.fp".

> > 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'll try to remember to delete 1206 from generic.

> > 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)

I stick to ~geda for generic (non vendor-specific) packages.

-Dan



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