gEDA-bug: [Bug 700187] Re: gsch2pcb should use PCB Import action

[Peter TB Brett <700187@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: geda
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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Title:
  gsch2pcb should use PCB Import action

Status in GPL Electronic Design Automation tools:
  New

Bug description:
   affects: geda
   tag: gsch2pcb
   done

  gsch2pcb has a number of problems at the moment:

  1) Because it doesn't properly check that footprint names are safe for
     m4 before running m4, it suffers from problems with some special
     characters (particularly '-') in footprint names (bug 698806).

  2) Hard-coded (at compile time) paths for PCB mean that it can't find
     footprints installed with PCB if PCB is installed to a different
     prefix to that which gsch2pcb was expecting (bug 698582).

  A way around this would be to re-implement gsch2pcb to use PCB directly
  to do the import, by feeding PCB a set of actions on standard input
  along with some carefully-crafted command-line options. In particular,
  the recently-added Import option, might be useful:

    http://pcb.gpleda.org/pcb-cvs/pcb.html#import-Action

  The main issue would be working out how to emulate all of the existing
  functionality of gsch2pcb through PCB, and would be likely to require
  cooperation from the PCB development team.

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