gEDA-user: bugs, warts and feature requests (3)

[kai-martin knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From my notes:

â pcb feature request: Please put all the gerbers in a dedicated subdir 
of the working directory by default. The name of the subdir should be 
configurable.

â pcb feature request: Optionally zip all gerbers and the cnc files to 
yield a single file that can be sent to the fab. The name of the zip 
file might contain the current date.

â pcb usability: pcb just complains on stdout if gerber output is 
advised to put the gerbers to a non existing path. Suggestion: pop up a 
warning dialog.

â pcb feature request: add a square property to tracks and lines.

â pcb feature request: Currently, text gets lost during "convert buffer 
to elements". Proposal: Convert text in silk to lines in silk. Convert 
text in copper to overlapping pads. I guess, it is possible to reuse 
the already existing render routines to do the conversion. 

â gnetlist bug: gsch2pcb produced invalid pcb syntax if footprint names 
contain a hyphen. The work flow will fail somewhere down the road with 
unspecific symptoms. This is a nasty, but long standing newbie trap 
that really should be defused one way or another. 

Please comment.

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