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You could also ask why have a .cmp file either?

The answer is: the .stf file was the simplist format 
that cvpcb exported. The .stf file is used to back 
annotate the schematic with footprint information. The
schematic could be the single source of the design 
information: netlist including footprints, for pcbnew.
cvpcb is a nice tool focused on footprint assignment
and could output an annotated schematic, then both
.stf and .cmp files could be eliminated, especially
with an improved BOM output.

-Frank Bennett

--- l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

From: Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Kicad Developers <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Kicad-developers] Why do we have the stuff file?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:26:06 +0200 (CEST)

I'm wondering... why do we have to have the .stf file around?

Couldn't eeschema simply read the cmp file?

There is already the parser in both cvpcb and pcbnew, so it should be
easy...

-- 
Lorenzo Marcantonio
Logos Srl

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