gEDA-user: [PCB] DRC - why is it modal?

[Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx>]

Is there a reason why PCB's DRC pops a modal dialog for every violation 
and refuses to move forward?  That is... ummm.... tedious...

Would it be difficult to re-engineer DRC to operate in a batch mode?

What I would like to see is a new DRC reports window that all of the 
violations are posted to as a single batch run.  Then, I would click on 
each violation to move the cross hair and flag the violation on the 
board.  That would be a good time to report additional information, such 
as the nets involved, etc.

-dave

(I recall some time in the 1980's when I was a CPU designer at Univac. 
(100K ECL if you're curious.) We had a laser printer that was 5 feet 
tall and 8 feet long excluding the burster/trimmer/stacker.  It would 
drain a box of computer paper in 3 minutes.  Print jobs that generated 
more than about 3 inch thick printouts were automatically diverted 
there.  Smaller jobs were sent to ordinary line printers, since it was 
hard on the laser printer's clutches to start and stop a lot.

The first time I ran the timing analyzer I remember sitting in my cube 
speculating whether my timing analysis report would be so awful that it 
would be diverted to the laser printer.  That was the day I discovered 
the existence of a third printer device: the microfiche printer.)


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