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> Algorithmic footprint creation on the fly moves footprint creation out
> of the immediate realm of the user. This makes it even less
> accessible.

I suspect you have a different definition of accessible than I. This
(parametric footprints, inside pcb-rnd) is available here and today;
its easier to use than digging drawing a symbol from scratch every
time. It provides an excellent starting point for users to make their
own custom footprints. Remember, parametric footprints can be saved
and modified just like normal footprints.

If you think users will use it as a crutch, you are right! That
indicates something quite important, the footprint creation process is
not intuitive. A new user must read the documentation if they want to
make (or use) a custom footprint, period.  The way things are set up
in PCB, the user stand little chance of figuring it out how to do it
by themselves.

> All of this is is also achieved by algorithmic creation at build time. [As opposed to doing it in t]

Why *only* at build time? Would you have the user recompile PCB each
time they want a new parametric footprint?

Surely it has occurred to you that Igor2's parametric footprint
mechanism could be used around compile time to generate the standard
library, right?

-- 
Jason White