Re: gEDA-user: Light? Heavy? Reuse...

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 17, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Bob Paddock wrote:

>>
>> That's another reason why, in the gEDA architecture, it makes great
>> sense to maintain the information that will generate the BOM in
>> project-specific "heavy" symbols.
>
> To a degree.  Say you have a Second-Source alternative that fulfills
> "form, fit, function".  You don't really want to have two heavy  
> symbols
> in your schematic, so that either can be used.  Also that can again
> force a change in your schematic that would be otherwise unnecessary
> when a part does go obsolete, but a new "form, fit, function" one
> becomes available.

You don't need to change the schematic. One way to do this is to keep  
a directory of second source symbols. These have the same names as  
the primary symbols, so swap them into the project symbol directory  
as needed.

Post processing a generated BOM is also not difficult.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd@xxxxxxxxx




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