On May 18, 2009, at 3:13 AM, Dan McMahill wrote: > Peter TB Brett wrote: >> On Monday 18 May 2009 02:52:01 Dan McMahill wrote: >>> KURT PETERS wrote: >>>> I was looking at my new pcb directory and noticed both a pcb- >>>> newlib >>>> and a newlib directory. >>>> What's the difference? >>>> Also, this >>>> http://www.geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_tips >>>> doesn't say anything about the pcb-newlib directory. >>>> Kurt >>> I am slowly phasing out the use of m4 at pcb run time and moving >>> it to >>> build time. >> >> I assume that it will still be possible to use m4 at runtime if you >> want to? > > I probably wouldn't mind phasing that out, but that is not set in > stone > (well, except for the win32 build where it has never worked and I > don't > plan on it ever working). > > What would be the motivation for leaving it?
I maintain a M4 footprint library in my software repository, loosing the ability to use that library would be rather inconvenient. arguably i could put the pre generated libraries in the repository. if you remove runtime, at least make the scripts the convert and install the M4 to .fp an installed script. Steve > > > -Dan > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
