Re: gEDA-user: PCB & Gschem

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:38:24PM -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:
> Marc Price wrote:
> >Im not reading Bill Wilsons Tutorial I Dont Want to be influenced by it 
> >im Writting my own
> >
> >I am looking to Work this out in a few easy steps
> >
> >firstly why am i getting all these footprint errors.
> >
> >Marc :)
> >
> 
> so rather than read a very useful tutorial which among other things 
> answers your questions, you'd rather ask a mailing list?

Reading the tutorial and documentations, FAQs and Wiki takes very long
time (Days? Weeks?). For example I am unable to concentrate long enough
to be able to read all the doc. Tutorial is not enough because doesn't
cover such basic things as making your own symbols and footprint. These
are needed very frequently considering how little is shipped together
with gEDA.

Asking on a mailing list takes 30 seconds of typing an e-mail and the
time waiting for a reply can be recycled for other activities.

This problem can be solved by having a single manual in a tree structure
optimized for access time (basically means ordinary properly done user
manual).

> 
> I hate to say RTFM, but....

Saying RTFM doesn't achieve anything. If you don't want to be bothered
by questions like this again and again, put the answer to the place the
question is born in user's mind. In this case put an URL to the gsch2pcb
error message.
"symbol xxx doesn't have footprint attribute" -> 
"You must supply footprint= attribute to symbol xxx. http://blah.blah.blah describes how."

CL<
> 
> -Dan