Re: gEDA-user: feature propriety. was Re: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 12, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Jason wrote:
>>>>
>>> Would having a footprint browser popup in gschem when the user
>>> tries to
>>> add a footprint attribute violate the modular nature of the kit?
>>
>> Unless you can provide an interface that would make this work with
>> all of the ~10 PCB layout programs gEDA can currently operate with,
>> and a reasonably easy path to make it work in the future with others,
>> I would say that violates modularity.
>>
>
> A footprint search path (eg. pcb's) and regex search of filenames  
> would
> be all that was needed.

I believe some of these tools keep footprints in databases, not  
separate files. And, as DJ pointed out, the issue isn't confined to  
footprints. I can never remember the !@#$% pintype abbreviations. But  
a general facility could be nice. Still need a script per back end  
tool to track down footprints, SPICE models, etc., but not too bad.  
Probably can't be easier.

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




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