Steven Michalske wrote: > 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.
ok. It won't happen for a bit (if it happens). First I want to deal with the entire existing library and then at a minimum have one release out there with a warning. -Dan _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
