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madparts as a replacement for the module editor

Asked by Peter Slupski

As the footprint editor is badly, badly broken (at least for me as I deem it comletely unusable, especially when I've got a deadline coming and have to bother with things like "save your library properly to the new format and import a .mod file" and not saving the footprint at all.) why not replace it with madparts?

http://madparts.org/footprint.html#documentation

Regards, Pete

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Best Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw) said : 		#1

I would not use madparts as a replacement footprint editor but possibly as an alternate footprint editor. Asking beginners to learn how to program is asking for trouble. The decision to use madparts would require a decision from the core developers. Even if the core developers decide to use madparts, it will not happen until after the next stable release.

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Peter Slupski (pslupski) said : 		#2

Thanks Wayne Stambaugh, that solved my question.