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On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Jan Kasprzak wrote:

> 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.

We used to have builtin infra for that: m4 based footprint generation. 
It was default when I started to use PCB around 2005. I remember 
"CONNECTOR 2 5" generated a 2x5 header. Recently it's much less popular, 
maybe even turned off by default. I think the extra complexity of such 
external scripts and yet another language looks scary to some users.

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