Re: gEDA-user: is tragesym still the one to use? and a script for hierarchical symbol making

["Britton Kerin" <bkerin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:52:32 -0500, "Ales Hvezda"
<ahvezda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> [snip]
> >    1. The HTML descriptions of the things in the packages seem out
> >       of date, for example http://geda.seul.org/tools/utils/index.html
> >       doesn't mention tragesym, but does mention gmk_sym.
> 
> Yup, please (or somebody) provide an updated page or patches.
> 
> >     
> >    2. You don't seem to be able to download the packages from here.  The
> >       link under 'Where can I download the utilities?' leads to the gEDA
> >       download page, the sources section of which points you back to the
> >       sources page.  It seems circular.
> 
> I don't understand this.  On the sources page there is:

Well it worked for me today, perhaps I was insane, but I thought that
before
the sources link on the download page took you to
http://geda.seul.org/tools/.
 
> > It might be better to just do like GNU and dump all the available
> > versioned
> > packages in a directory and let people sort it out themselves.
> 
> Really?  Is that's better than an annotated download page like
> sources.html?

Its the no-documentation vs. wrong documentation question.  Manually
maintained lists like that have a strong tendency to fall out of sync.

Britton





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