Re: gEDA-user: weird names in PCB part library

[Dave McGuire <mcguire-atMUNGEDneurotica_dot_com>]

On Aug 20, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
>> If I had my druthers, we'd deprecate that entire M4 symbol library, 
>> and
>> move to the file based library.  Eventually, we'd kill the M4 library
>> altogether.
>>
>> Any benefit of using an M4 script to generate symbols can be
>> replicated using Perl or Python.  M4 should be banashed.
>
>   Parameterized footprint generation is a macro processing task.  M4 
> is a macro processor.  Perl is a scripting language.
>
>   Regardless of your personal dislike for M4, it is the correct tool 
> for the job (far more so than a scripting language like Perl, or even 
> a *good* scripting language like Python), and it works quite well.  
> The problem here is one of maintenance, not of implementation.

   (Blargh...I didn't intend for that to sound as snotty as it did; I 
haven't had any caffeine yet today..  -Dave)

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