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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/8/2014 8:29 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 10/8/2014 2:45 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 02:37:40AM -0400, Mark Roszko wrote:
>>> So from what I remember, Kicad used to call alot of pcb footprints as
>>> "modules". Sometimes it was "module", other times "footprint module"
>>> and now "footprint". Footprint seems to have picked up in usage so
>>> let's use it everywhere!
>>
>> AFAIK the 'official' name in kicad is module, however I don't really
>> care :D
>>
> 
> Actually it is footprint.  This change began when the footprint library
> table code was implemented.  I've been changing things as I find them
> but there is sill a lot of legacy usage of module in the code.  At some
> point I will get around to changing the legacy class names to reflect this.
> 

I am less concerned about the differences in the source code.  This is
only an issue for developers.  Everything the user sees should use the
term footprint.