On Tuesday 13 December 2005 08:34 am, Stuart Brorson wrote: > 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.
It would be better to have a directory that contains only IPC-7351 parts, add additional directories as new standards emerge. In the contract manufacturing environment it is not uncommon to have to update a design many years later. So whatever time you pick for "after one year", it will be wrong. On Tuesday 13 December 2005 08:42 am, John Luciani wrote: >I would create symlinks to the old ones. This way the new names and >the old names can coexist. Symlinks are not supported on all platforms. I am using an index file to work around that problem in wxPCB.
