Re: gEDA-user: Re: LED 100 != 5mm LED ?

[Dan McMahill <dan-atMUNGEDmcmahill_dot_net>]

Andy Peters wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2007, at 6:29 PM, Mark Rages wrote:
> 
>> On 2/12/07, Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@familieknaak.de> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I trust only footprints I made myself and triple checked for  
>>> consistency
>>> with the specs. Is this bizarre?
>>>
>>
>> It seems wasteful for all gEDA users to be doing this.
> 
> 
> I agree with this ... there's no point in reinventing the wheel.
> 
> However, when an install of pcb comes with a warning that there are  
> errors in the m4 libraries, yet doesn't say what footprints have  errors 
> (not to mention: why haven't these errors been fixed?), leads  one to 
> simply not trust the provided libraries at all.

Could you point me to where that warning is?  It needs to be updated.

I certainly can't claim that the footprints are perfect, but they are 
getting better slowly.  I can however claim that all of the m4 syntax 
errors and pcb syntax errors are gone.

My comment about it being strange that people trusted newlib footprints 
more than m4 generated footprints was based on the impresssion that the 
mistrust came more from what program generated them, not that someone 
else generated them.


I've been kicking around the idea of approaching the folks at 
pcblibraries.com and seeing if they would be willing to release a free 
use version of their IPC library for use with pcb.  I've wondered if 
volunteering to do the work would convince them.

-Dan


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