Re: gEDA-user: moving slotting to pcb?

[Armin Faltl <armin.faltl@xxxxxx>]

John Griessen wrote:
> > No reason to change pcb. What we need is a schematic processor to sit 
> > between gschem and gnetlist. Expand hierarchy, assign slots and 
> > values, turn the source schematics into project schematics for both 
> > netlisting and documentation. 
>
> What are good names for symbolic only source schematics and those with
> as built values?  We have a traditional naming where even the suffix
> suggests only one meaning -- schematic for .sch.
I use revisions for this: 1st run of revisions is connectivity only,
2nd run is with values. I see no urgent need to make it more complicated
and force a split, that probably no noob will understand without reading
or asking a lot.
> The drawing suffixes could be .sch and .ckt.  If schematic is what 
> someone
> enters, the .ckt file is just that same drawing with the extra details
> stripped out. 
If you want your circuit file as sort of "header" (in C-speak), and one
can start with a schematic (C-file) and is not forced to use a circuit,
maybe you have my sympathie.
> If you stretch a wire in one, it stretches in the other,
> but values, packages, and pin numbers don't "stick" in the circuit view,
> only in schematic view?
Reads like the  attributes are left in place when you move a symbol.
And sounds like a recipe for total chaos. Otoh, if you mean, that one
might move pins around on a symbol in the schematic, to avoid crossing
nets, that would be really cool.
> phil wrote:
>
> > DJ, this reminds me of a set of improvements I'd throw into the ring
> > because if PCB knew which nets were power nets, and so forth as 
> provided
> > by gschem it'd be the beginning of categorization or even
> > hierarchicalization of the nets.
>
> I'd like to see these concepts handled by attributes attached to nets in
> the schematic or reusable circuit view, and then passed to other tools
> to use or not use.
>
> PCB will be able to preserve attributes like those soon, I bet.
> And then once you can select by attribute match anded with other matches,
> you've got lots of visible look changes you can do with action commands
> acting on the selected set.
makes sense to me


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