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Some manufacturers provide footprints in .bxl file format and there exist a tool to convert to gEDA here https://github.com/erichVK5/BXL2text and think I used this tool a few times.

Do not consider java a good language fot this as it add another dependency but used it and it works.

> Speaking of libraries I know that other cad tools provide their official
> libs on github.com. The only site that I can find for gEDA is a  CVS
> download that hasn't been updated in 8 years.
> 
> Should we do something about this?
> 
> Is there any organized library work going on?

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