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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] [pcb-rnd] Release 1.0.1
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 21:04:50 +0200
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Jason White (whitewaterssoftwareinfo-
Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w AT public DOT gmane DOT org) [via geda-user-
Ht4Cp5ncgjRBDgjK7y7TUQ AT public DOT gmane DOT org] wrote:

> Hmm. I could get used to these parametric footprints. Good work!

I feel like, parametric footprint production on the fly bears some 
disadvantages:

* Any mechanism is necessarily less transparent than footprints that 
just exist. It makes the access less newbie friendly. 

* parameters are communicated by the name of the footprint. This calls 
for some specialized grammar. However, many footprints also have 
traditional real name which does not contain any parameter. E.g. 
"0805", TO220

* There is an additional run time dependency. Have the wrong version 
of perl, python, java, whatever installed and you are screwed. Ready 
made footprints can be imported from somewhere else.

I feel like the default library should be a simple set of ready made 
files. These files may or even should be produced algorithmically at 
compile time. 

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