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Subject: [geda-user] back annotation proposal (RFC)
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Hi all,

I know this thread comes up twice a year without anything happening 
after it dies off. This time I try to make a difference by actually 
implementing at least the pcb-rnd side of the feature, but hopefully the 
whole thing.

I have a proposal that requires only minimal changes in gschem, and some 
of these changes are not even limited to back annotation. I am not yet 
sure about all details of the gschem part tho. Since I am a 
scheme-illiterate, I hope someone can help me out on this part, both in 
filling in the gaps in the design and implementing the scheme scripts.

The proposal is at:

http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/devlog/20150830b_back_ann.html

Please note, that:

  - I badly need back annotation, so I am determined to implement it

  - this design proposal is not a final version and may change during the 
thread

  - as past threads showed, it is impossible to come up with a solution 
that everyone is equally happy with, so that's not the goal; instead, I 
want to come up with something that's good enough for me and on top of 
that, as good as possible for others within reasonable effort range

  - I am generally interested in ideas, other design approaches, etc, 
although I've seen a lot of them already in the past threads about the 
topic...

  - ... so ideas/opinion of actual contributors will weight more

Regards,

Igor2