Re: gEDA-user: CVS PCB

[Xtian Xultz <xultz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry if I am completelly lost, but how is the work going now?
The CVS PCB have the development of the Gtk PCB, and the PCB HID is a separate 
development, or they are merged and in CVS I found the PCB HID? In the HID, 
only the Lesstif are suported, or Gtk is supported too?

Em Sex 17 Mar 2006 09:44, Dan McMahill escreveu:
> Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Someone wrote that CVS PCB now displays the footprint attribute in the
> > footprint library. I would like to try it out. Is the CVS PCB stable
> > enough? Does it often crash while losing the work? Does it sometimes
> > corrupt the .pcb file? Is it's file format compatible with the latest
> > release?
> >
> > CL<
>
> - is is probably more stable than the latest release
>
> - I have not had it crash, but this doesn't mean it won't
>
> - I have not had any corruption of the file, but again that
>    doesn't mean it won't.  It shouldn't be any worse.
>
> - the file format written by the cvs version will _not_ be loaded by the
> latest snapshot.  This is because of 2 additional DRC settings (which
> you requested btw).  If the file needs to be read by the latest
> snapshot, the DRC line can be removed.
>
> - you can also see the footprint= attribute at
> http://www.gedasymbols.org/footprints/  For the M4 libraries, the text
> which is hyperlinked to the footprint is the correct attribute.  For the
> newlib library, drop the ".fp" part.