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From: Markus Hitter <mah AT jump-ing DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] I've updated footgen to work with nanometer base units
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 01:12:41 +0200
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Am 31.07.2012 um 23:55 schrieb Stephen Ecob:

> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:06 AM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>>
>>> Can't we have a git "contrib" subdir for such useful things  
>>> developing?
>
> I can see merit in footgen being in git, but that raises a bigger
> issue of what should be included with PCB
> and what should be separately available at gedasymbols.

Two things come to mind here:

- stuff in git might become integrated sooner. For example, as a  
"custom footprint" choice in the library chooser.

- Newbies don't know gedasymbols.org, so the competition offering  
such a generator with the standard distribution wins.


Markus

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