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Remove KiCad v4 handling

John Beard requested to merge johnbeard/kicad-footprint-generator:remove_kicad4 into master

This MR strips out all the KiCad 4 handling from the generators. This was mostly about:

  • Not using round-rect pads
  • Not using compound pads

Since the generators support only the stable version of KiCad (v7, soon v8), and can't guarantee other aspects of the format will be accepted by older KiCad version, old version support isn't a feature offered by the generators. Retrospective KiCad 4 support was possible in KiCad-5 era generators, but no longer.

Also, this doesn't preclude using rectangular pads - the more flexible way to do that (if wanted) would be an alternative global config rather than separate logic in each generator.

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