Re: gEDA-user: uEDA .. was .. Re: Heavy Symbols and such

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 10, 2007, at 7:18 AM, Peter Clifton wrote:

>
> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 17:41 +0900, John Doty wrote:
>
>> Automatically copy any symbol referenced to there. *That's* where you
>> "embed" symbols (not in some random schematic file, where they do not
>> belong). Give any symbol found there silent, unconditional priority
>> over library symbols, so the user need not deal with duplicate symbol
>> warnings, version mismatches, etc.
>
> Would we need a way (automatic / GUI driven manual) to remove symbols
> from there? (IE. place foo-1.sym, and decide it's wrong, so delete  
> it..
> you then have a symbol which isn't referenced in your project, but
> exists in you're per project sym library).

Oh, maybe. They do tend to accrete there. I mostly don't worry about  
them. It's like the parts that wind up in the cabinets and never get  
used ;-) Seems like a pretty simple script to pick out symbol  
references from a set of .sch files and compare them to a project  
symbol directory listing.

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John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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