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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Footprint Generator
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Gabriel,

Thank you for the info.

> On Jan 27, 2015, at 6:59 AM, Gabriel Paubert <paubert AT iram DOT es> wrote:
> 
> I was also on a frequencly updated Debian testing machine. On another
> machine I had Debian stable but ruby-gtk3 is not available, so it's
> hopeless. 

There is an alternate way to retrieve Ruby gems that I need to look into. Both gem and bundler can obtain and install gems.

> The version of gio2 is 2.2.0-5+b2 in Debian numbering. 
> 
> However the changes between 2.1 and 2.2 from the git repository for
> ruby-gio2 are extremely large, so it's not surprising. Most of
> the C code has disappeared and many bindings seem to be automatically
> generated through black magic, I mean gobject-introspection.

I've checked in a potential fix to the repository. The fix abandons using Gio in favor of Ruby core library.

> Besides that, I think that this package generator is a very good initiative,
> but I'd suggest to add a BGA generation option.

I've added BGA packages to the issue list as an enhancement.

Cheers,
Ed