gEDA: One ore tester!

[Thomas Heidel <theidel@advis.de>]

Hi all,

I happily realized your gEDA project. A couple of
years ago I maintained a Mentor Graphics installation
and have some backround from there. While I do
not think I can contibute a lot in terms of programming,
I would like to do some testing. I succesfully build
the 19990829 release on my ReadHat 5.2.
I am also have access to HP Workstations and would like
to test it there to. For now I was not able to compile
gtk+ for HP-UX 10.20. Can anybody tell me what
other packages I need?

The following is a list of ideas which came to
my head when I played around with gschem.

General concepts:

- It might be better not to have the symbol fixed to
  the component. In cases like logic gates, transistors,
  diods, LEDs or other diskret parts it would result
  in great overhead. Why not make the symbol a attribut?

- For the long run it should result in a "gedadb"
  with records representing the parts (I recomend
  this name for it) of the different suppliers
  with there symbol names, package type, geometry for gpcb,
  electrical characteristics for simulation, and many more
  assignt as pointers only.
  Once added to a schematic it gets added uref, location
  and whatever to complete the set of attributes to be a
  component.


gschem features:

- vertixes (eg. the end points of nets, pin or busses) schould
  have a real instance in the schematic, so you can
  select, move and join them to other vertixes.

- There should be a select filter. eg. select only
  nets, pins, busses, vertixes, components, specific attributes...

- It should be possible to define hidden pins as attributes
  (usefull for VCC, GND ...)

- I would like to be able to move a net segment or component
  and have the corresbonding  nets moved too.
  unless you detached the vertixes first.

For now you did I nice job!

Regards,
Thomas