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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/3/2014 10:06 AM, LordBlick wrote:
> In response to a message written on 03.11.2014 15:27, from Carl Poirier:
>> Why use the legacy footprints (…)?
> In legacy footprints have stay cleanup by user preferable order(I've own
> footprint editor developed much time, then new, messy format arrives).
> Alphabetically sorted is not the same, that somebody needs… It's bad
> idea, because it's easy to end with many doubled/tripled footprints.
> 
Duplicate footprints are no longer an issue with fp-lib-table.  Prior to
fp-lib-table, is was possible to load the wrong footprint if the path
search order was not correct.  This cannot happen with fp-lib-table not
matter how many duplicate footprint names you have.

I'm not sure what "messy" new format you are speaking of but the current
board and footprint library formats are significantly better the legacy
format and the fp-lib-table is far superior to the old path search
method of looking up footprint in libraries.