Re: gEDA-user: Matching footprints with symbols

[Colin D Bennett <colin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:56:09 +0100
Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Colin D Bennett wrote:
> 
> >> Bottom line: Avoid hyphens in footprint names except to add a
> >> revision number at the end of the base name.
> > 
> > Alternate bottom line: Avoid m4 footprint library.
> 
> ack. 
> In addition: Be aware of potential problems if you share your
> hyphenated footprints with other users. I ran into this problem back,
> when I used some of the footprints, John Luciani generously provides
> on his home page. 

But if the footprints in question (with names containing hyphens) are in
newlib (PCB element) format, doesn't this mean that the m4 processor
bug will be avoided?

Regards,
Colin


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