On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:28:45PM -0500, Darrell Harmon wrote: [...] > Have you seen my python footprint generator? It has a rather bad > interface, but it works. http://dlharmon.com/geda/footgen.html > You are welcome to take whatever you want from it.
I had not seen that, but now I have. At first glance, your library seems far more developed than my little newborn. I am already knee-deep in other work at the moment, but I will take a closer look at this next time I need to create some footprints. > I have had the thought of doing a gsch2pcb replacement in python. > Time is the only reason I have not. It would still need to support > newlib footprints because I modify some difficult parts using > either pcb or emacs. I've thought about this too, but gsch2pcb seems to work quite well. I use it along with my python code by pre-generating newlib footprints and putting them in a local directory that gsch2pcb grabs them from. It works well enough. I would be more likely to patch it to invoke my python scripts with arguments before I rewrote the whole thing, even though I dislike Perl in general. (And I used to be a real Perl fanatic.) Randall
