Re: gEDA-user: Strange!

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 17:53 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> Looking for a 74HC595 Symbol.
> 
> Lets go to gedasymbols, type in 595.
> 
> One of the results:
> 
> 74595_dil:N:74595:8bit shift register w. output latch 3-state [N 16 300]
> 
> http://www.gedasymbols.org/footprints/m4lib/N%2016%20300.fp

Indeed, the M4 -> newlib conversion is really rather broken in terms of
naming. Many actually clash (look for things like "300.fp" etc.. for 
examples of bad naming).

The file-name above reflects the M4 macro invoked for that package.
74595_dil expands by calling "N 16 30", presumably a 16 pin 300 mil wide
footprint. I'm not sure why the macro is called "N".

I strongly suggest that no-one actually use the converted M4->newlib
output, and actually use the M4 ones (at least until the naming is
sorted out).

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
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