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[Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Merry Christmas / Hannukah / All other to everyone.

Jan,
Why do you prefix your SMT packages with DIP?
For everyone in the electronic industry, DIP always mean Through Hole package.
Your naming conventions are really misleading.

Just my $0.02,
Jean-Paul
N1JPL



> On Dec 25, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Jan Krieger <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Dear all!
> 
> first of all: Merry Christmas :-)))
> 
> second: We are currently discussing the style of the DIP footprints, which has (IMHO) some drawbacks:
> 1. F.Fab is missing
> 2. A lot of space is wasted between package (f.Fab) and silkscreen-line
> 
> I made some proposals for new footprints (and if we decide on a style) would make scripts to create them and update the lib.
> 
> So please have a look (and give your optinion) on this discussions:
> 
> https://github.com/KiCad/TO_SOT_Packages_SMD.pretty/pull/29
> 
> Best,
> JAN
> 
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