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[easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,
please reconsider to leave the python wizard installed
The wizard is giving:
BGA, DIP/SIP, QFP, Circular array and BarCode just out of the box.

May be they are improvable (exposed pad, thermal vias etc), but at this 
state they are fully usable (without any crash or prob) and much faster 
then standard footprint editor.
Moreover, if you do not include them you get a wizard button in pcbnew 
footprint editor for nothing...



On 30/09/2015 14.30, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Thanks for the update.  I'll leave the python examples uninstalled until
> we can confirm that they are not broken.  I don't think it's all that
> important for the stable release.  Users can always look at the python
> plugins to get an idea of how the python scripting works.
>
> On 9/30/2015 3:59 AM, Miguel Angel Ajo wrote:
> > I agree with JP here, QFP and QFN may be separate wizards. If there are
> > common parts, feel free to use inheritance from a common base to reuse
> > code.
> >
> > About naming: footprint generators sound better, or whatever, at that
> > time I was following an industry leader on naming it..., but I agree
> > footprint generator is more clear for the task.
> >
> > About including our scripting examples, I wouldn't, those are not tested
> > with the current codebase, and likely to be broken because of C++
> > interface changes.
> >
> > Sorry for my slow response,
> > best regards,
> > Miguel Ángel.
> >
> >
> > jp charras wrote:
> > > Le 30/09/2015 01:25, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
> > > > JP,
> > > >
> > > > Your name is on the initial commit for qfn_wizard.py.  I don't have time
> > > > to figure out these patches should be included.  Do these patches make
> > > > sense?  Let me know so I can make a decision on whether or not to commit
> > > > them.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Wayne
> > >
> > > These patches make sense, I used them to fix bugs in our footprint
> > > wizard dialog issues, and issues in some pythons scripts (mainly usage
> > > of print command which created python exceptions when stdout was never
> > > read, especially on Windows).
> > >
> > > But do not commit them. Reasons:
> > > - I am thinking the wizard to create a QFN should be an other wizard
> > > than the QFN wizard.
> > > The thermal pad needs many parameters, useless for a QFN without thermal
> > > pad.
> > > - The wizard to create a QFN with thermal pad needs refinements, before
> > > being committed
> > >
> > > I'll have a look at that later.
> >
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