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On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Roland Lutz wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
>> On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> I disagree here. There are way too many combination. This method results in 
>> too many files _and_ missing files. Often through mechanisms involving "dip 
>> pacakges above N pins are always wider", which is just not true. As an user 
>> I find learning such custom rules, or what the N, M or W suffix really means 
>> is harder and more risky (footprint-mismatch-wise) than a proper generator.
>
> The problem here is, some footprint generators have a lot of parameters, e.g. 
> for pin and pad sizes, silk line width, pin row/column distance, etc. With my

Did you check my syntax? I think I managed to solve this.