Re: gEDA-user: geda for "open hardware"

[evan foss <evanfoss@xxxxxxxxx>]

The solution I always liked was making a simple live CD with the
project documentation and all. This is not for distribution it is
because about every 6 or 7 years I end up changing tools and can't
find anything to read my old stuff.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:19 AM, KURT PETERS<peterskurt@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   I've been thinking a bit about gEDA for "open hardware" lately, and
>   have a few thoughts that I was wondering if people on the list would
>   help me think through:
>
>   1) open hardware implies (to me anyways) that someone has produced a
>   PCB and makes available the schematics, layout, symbols, footprints,
>   and BOM.
>   2) The "new user", wanting to modify the hardware, should be able to
>   "copy in" a few extra components into the schematic and gsch2pcb back
>   to pcb, but the previous layout shouldn't be changed at all, just a
>   few extra components are available to be added.  gsch2pcb already
>   supports this pretty robustly.
>   3) the new user then places the new components and adds/modifies
>   traces as necessary to get it to work.
>
>   The question is, is there an "approved solution" for packaging all the
>   necessary materials to ensure someone developing hardware can ensure
>   the "new user" has everything they need to accomplish 1-3 above?  I
>   assume it would extract symbols and footprints and encapsulate the
>   versions of PCB/Gschem used to create the PCB.  I also assume that it
>   should somehow distinguish between core symbols and footprints, and
>   "custom" ones.  Of course, then, the core ones would also need a
>   version number, I suppose, in case they change.
>
>   Thoughts???
>   Kurt
>
>
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