Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Stale rat's nest?

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> this is good for the initial board, but doesn't quite work when you 
> forward annotate changes to pcb.
> 
> perhaps the forward annotation should be done by writing out a pcb 
> actions file which has actions to instantiate the new footprints and 
> load the newly created netlist?

gsch2pcb already reads the pcb file to discover which footprints it
doesn't need to duplicate.  It could write out new rats at the same
time, I suppose, but I don't know how well that would work.  If it's
already reading a lot about the board, maybe it should just write out
a modified board.

Time to break the board support files into a library, so we can write
nifty tools that know a *lot* about pcb internals?

Otherwise, yeah, an action script might be the best way to "import"
changes into pcb while it's running.