Re: gEDA-user: RFC: Towards a better symbol/package pin-mapping strategy

[Steven Michalske <smichalske@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is an age old debate in EDA software.  Where is the symbol weight  
stored?  In each symbol,  or in a database.
( Note when I say database, it can be a flat file or full blown  
relational SQL )

The Heavy vs. Light symbol debate.   both answers are correct. let's  
build infrastructure for both.


Unsurprisingly the very expensive software I use at work can't even do  
this...  We use a "heavy" library.   I'm ashamed about all of the  
screw ups with swapping "identical" parts, that I have seen,   RHOS  
and Halogen free transitions were a pain.    a light symbol could have  
automatically been mapped and the transition could have been reading a  
report for the automatically transitioned parts and verifying that  
they were identical, ONCE. not per project.  I feel man WEEKS were  
wasted.

Steve


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