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On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > maintaining 8-pin, 14-pin, 16-pin, and 40-pin DIPs separately by hand - is
> > important and valuable.  It seems a shame that gEDA once had that ability
> > and now basically doesn't.
>
> Perhaps you don't really use PCB?  The M4 footprints are still there,
> ready for you to define parameterized footprints all day and all
> night.  They're simply called "deprecated" in a footprint manual.

They don't work by default - I need to manually specify options that
mean "yes I want to use M4 files from such-and-such directory" every time
I import a schematic - and they appear to be even less supported than the
rest of the library.  It doesn't appear I can expect them to work in
the future, even when other things that currently don't work may be
fixed eventually.  That's what I mean by basically not working.
I'm aware that deprecation is different from not existing at all.

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Matthew Skala
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