Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/06/29/16:38:06
On Jun 29, 2015, at 5:30 AM, Jan Kasprzak <kas AT fi DOT muni DOT cz> wrote:
> The barrier for using and enhancing thegedasymbols.org library should be
> lowered - the symbols should be searchable/usable from within
> gschem/gattrib/pcb,
Name conflicts would be a serious problem. It’s not safe to put the gedasymbols tree in your symbol search path, as an update by anybody could change your design.
> and the submission of new symbols should be made easier
> (no svn, for example). Maybe a plain old file upload with user feedback
> (like/dislike a particular symbol or footprint, which would then result
> in higher position in user searches, etc.). Maybe some support for
> autogenerated footprints (such as DIL with various number of pins).
One basic problem is that there are two symbol reference paradigms in geda-gaf, and neither is entirely satisfactory. The default is to refer to a symbol in the library search path. The other is to embed the symbol in the schematic file. Neither scales well to complex designs. The clean approach, easily implemented via command line, is to copy the symbol file to a project-specific repository. Clumsy up front, but much easier to deal with down the road. Implementing this approach in the symbol browser would make putting all of gedasymbols in the symbol browser’s search path (while forbidding library searches outside the browser) reasonably safe.
John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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