Re: gEDA-user: why separate xgsch2pcb?

[Chris Cole <clecol@xxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 09:39 -0500, Chris Cole wrote:
>   
> > Just curious, why not include xgsch2pcb functionality inside of gschem?
> >     
>
> xgsch2pcb was implemented as a proof of concept project manager, and
> doesn't really "belong" inside gschem.
>
> gschem supports a great diversity of work-flows, only one of which
> involves producing PCBs with the "PCB" package. This means it would be
> in-appropriate the make assumptions along these lines in the gschem UI.
>   
I think I see what you're saying...however as an example...if I'm
working in OpenOffice.org, I have the ability to save as ODF, PDF
or even (*gasp*) a proprietary format, although I may never use
more than one workflow. And I wasn't saying that xgsch2pcb should
be a drop-in window "as-is" to gschem, but I think it would be rather
nice if you could generate netlists and output to pcb straight from
gschem. Just a thought. I might even be willing to help if anyone else
is interested in the idea.

> There might be future scope for making gschem (and other applications)
> "project aware", but that would likely be much less explicit than
> xgsch2pcb, as it would need to cater for (or keep out of the way of) all
> other work-flows. Better integration is a personal goal of mine though.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Peter C
>
>
>
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