Re: gEDA-user: Progress with unified build

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 8, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Dan McMahill wrote:

> - you may want to have a set of symbols which include the footprint  
> name
> already (search for "heavy symbol" in the archives or wiki).   
> Others may
> not want this.  It is a personal preference thing and people tend to
> have strong opinions over which way is best.

I think it's a little more than personal preference. Adding  
attributes piecemeal to library symbols is quick and easy for small  
projects, but scales poorly to related collections of big projects.  
It's like software: a very simple C program is sensibly a single  
file, but bigger codes benefit from being split into reusable modules  
and header files. The analogy *.c -> *.sch and *.h -> *.sym is a way  
to understand this.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd@xxxxxxxxx




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