On 12/13/05, Stuart Brorson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi -- > > > OTOH: if you are building a "heavy" symbols library you could start with = > > the "Landpattern Naming Convention" (that is, if this is a defacto = > > industry standard). > > John Luciani has written a document proposing a footprint naming > convention based upon IPC-7351. His doc is available for download > here: > > http://www.luciani.org/ > > I believe that his footprint library follows his doc's convention.
I believe that most of the parts follow the specified convention some of the olrder parts do not. As I update older parts I will make the appropriate name changes. > > > Renaming the landpattern in the pcb (newlib) will probably follow some = > > day. > > Renaming the footprints may cause havoc with existing designs. I > wouldn't do it. Rather, I'd do this: > > 1. Add the new footprints/footprint names to the newlib dir. > 2. After one year, move the old ones to a separate directory called > newlib-oldnames or some such. Then, folks needing the old > footprints/footpritn names can place this dir first in their gsch2pcb > search path. I would create symlinks to the old ones. This way the new names and the old names can coexist. (* jcl *) -- http://www.luciani.org
