Re: gEDA-user: pcb-newlib vs newlib

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steven Michalske wrote:
> On May 18, 2009, at 3:13 AM, Dan McMahill wrote:
> 
>> Peter TB Brett wrote:
>>> On Monday 18 May 2009 02:52:01 Dan McMahill wrote:
>>>> KURT PETERS wrote:
>>>>>   I was looking at my new pcb directory and noticed both a pcb- 
>>>>> newlib
>>>>>   and a newlib directory.
>>>>>   What's the difference?
>>>>>   Also, this
>>>>>   http://www.geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_tips
>>>>>   doesn't say anything about the pcb-newlib directory.
>>>>>   Kurt
>>>> I am slowly phasing out the use of m4 at pcb run time and moving  
>>>> it to
>>>> build time.
>>> I assume that it will still be possible to use m4 at runtime if you  
>>> want to?
>> I probably wouldn't mind phasing that out, but that is not set in  
>> stone
>> (well, except for the win32 build where it has never worked and I  
>> don't
>> plan on it ever working).
>>
>> What would be the motivation for leaving it?
> 
> I maintain  a M4 footprint library in my software repository, loosing  
> the ability to use that library would be rather inconvenient.
> 
> arguably i could put the pre generated libraries in the repository.
> 
> if you remove runtime,  at least make the scripts the convert and  
> install the M4 to .fp an installed script.

ok.

It won't happen for a bit (if it happens).  First I want to deal with 
the entire existing library and then at a minimum have one release out 
there with a warning.

-Dan


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