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Roland Lutz wrote:
: On Mon, 29 Jun 2015, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
: >Maybe some support for autogenerated footprints (such as DIL with
: >various number of pins).
: 
: You may find my footprint generator useful:
:   https://github.com/rlutz/arthropods
: 
: See the file “sip-dip” for an example DIP configuration.

	Well, this is what I am talking about - this kind of things
should be integrated to gschem/pcb. For example, instead of choosing
a footprint for an axial capacitor from tens of footprints available,
there can be a single parametrized footprint. The same for DIP/DIL/SIP,
for TQFP/QFN, etc.

-Yenya

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