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[LordBlick <lordblick@xxxxxxxxx>]

In response to a message written on 03.11.2014 15:14, from Jean-Samuel Reynaud:
> Hi All,
>
> I wrote few months ago an extension to be able to write in python a
> footprint library plugin.
> ie: for the moment for footprint you have to choice between:
> - Kicad
> - Legacy
> - GitHub
> ...
> And I had write a "Python". You choose the python module to load (the
> module name as an option of the python plugin) and this python
> module have to implement some functions to do the job.
>
> This code is currently under a branch :
> lp:~kicad-developers/kicad/python_plugin
>
> Specific code is mainly in pcbnew/fppython/ and there is a python
> example in pcbnew/fppython/fppython_example.py.
IMHO that plugin should be named „pyDynamicFootprint” or similar.
Instead of creating a long library from 4 to 64 pins we can easily generate 
desired package footprint on demand.
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Best Regards,
LordBlick