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

[Martin Kupec <martin.kupec@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:43:45PM +0100, kai-martin knaak wrote:
> 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.
	yah!
> 
> 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.
	nah...that is easy to do by hand. And usually it is needed to
	rename the files.
> 
> 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.
	yah!
> 
> â pcb feature request: add a square property to tracks and lines.
	yah!
> 
> 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. 
	no opinion...
> 
> 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. 
	This is bug..needs correcting.

		Martin Kupec



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