Re: gEDA-user: Any discussion about combining schematics and symbols into one file?

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Yamazaki R2 wrote:

>
>    I think i might have brought this up before but I wanted to  
> bring this
>    up again. I know this would be kind of a big change to the way gEDA
>    works, but it would be nice to combine component's schematic,  
> symbol,
>    and maybe pcb view into one file. Or at least the option to do so.

What advantage do you see here? Mostly, I see disadvantages.

You may embed symbols within the schematic if you wish, so you can  
have "one file" containing an entire schematic design. This feature  
already exists: what difficulty do you see with it?

When you embed symbols you've thrown away much of gEDA's great  
strength, because a collection of files is a much more flexible and  
reusable representation of the design.

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




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