Comment 10 for bug 1005644

Does the updated version of this patch work closer inline with the .gitignore .cvsignore style?

Given Bert's intially assumption (and mine), that this is the kind of syntax which should be applied - I'd be strongly inclined to favour that syntax and semantics.

However.. I'm not entirely convinced why we need this.

Would the problem you're trying to address also be solved if we could mandate that only "*.fp" files are displayed? (Or if PCB could skim the header of the file to determine if it actually _IS_ a footprint).

Forcing *.fp files in libraries would be is a non-trivial change, as we never have insisted on a particular file extension in the past, but one I'd be prepared to discuss making. The complexity of that change is overall low, compared to adding a mecahnism for blocking arbitrary files.