Re: gEDA-user: Light vs heavy gschem symbols?

[Manfred Eggersdorf <manfred.eggersdorf@xxxxxx>]

Oh, this makes this not easier....

Perhaps it is possible to back-annotate a schematic from pcb - but 
without symbols.

And for the case that a (single) symbol is needet, then the user has to 
copy this symbol out from the generated schematic and safe at its own 
symbol...

In this case the attributes used in pcb could be safed (overwritten) 
within the library-file, because first: it is most probably that it 
works and second: If there is a need to change something (perhaps 
footprint from SO8 to DIL8) it is still possible in the next schematic 
due adding attributes...

Am I wrong?
Manfred
> An interesting side point is this:  Enabling back annotation from PCB
> to gschem is part of the equation.  Currently, pin attributes like pin
> numbers *only* live in teh symbol file.  To enable back annotation we
> need to find a method to overwrite pin attributes at the schematic
> level.  This necessitates a design change in libgeda since the .sch
> file parser would need to recognize when to overwrite pin attribs. 
>
> Stuart