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Subject: [geda-user] [pcb-rnd] subcircuits vs. DJ's Blue Sky Ideas
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Hi all,

I realized yesterday that incidentally pcb-rnd and cschem are implementing 
a lot of the concepts DJ shared as "Blue Sky Ideas". In case of subcircuit 
the relevant page is

http://www.delorie.com/pcb/new-pcb-file-format.html

Paragraph by paragraph:

1. referenced elements: not yet done, but planned _as an option_ on the 
long run (maybe next year)

2. pad stacks: we most probably will start implementing pad stacks this 
year

3. layer stack recipe vs. physical layer stack, translation forth and 
back: already implemented (subcircuits, board-independent portable 
buffers)

4. "sublayouts" - done; it is the very same thing that we have as 
"subcircuits" (except the referencing part yet, see paragraph 1)

5. "Footprints should be a sublayout :-)" - done


Regards,

Igor2