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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Support for the footprint association file (*.cmp) was removed from
cvpcb.  The net list is passed back and forth between eeschema and cvpcb
via a kiway express message eliminating the need for the .cmp file.

On 7/23/2015 1:20 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> The executable was explicitly removed recently. I don't rember the
> reasoning, but I guess Wayne can answer that question.
> 
> 2015-07-23 19:06 GMT+02:00 Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 06:01:04PM +0200, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>>> cvpcb is gone as a seperate executable indeed.
>>
>> Yes I knew that, for a while already.
>>
>>> It can still be opened from eeschema when in a project. (top toolbar
>>> where it has been previously)
>>
>> Never used the project manager because it's messy to have both eeschema
>> and pcbnew in the same process... I simply call eeschema from the
>> command line. Also the project window is, quite simply, not useful and
>> in the way:P
>>
>> Can't see why it shouldn't work that way too, eeschema already can
>> access the footprint repositories for itself...
>>
>> --
>> Lorenzo Marcantonio
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