Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 3.  There should be native support for elongated vias (they
>     are called "pads" in Eagle) when defining an element.

The way to do this in pcb is to put a pin and a pad in the same place.
The pin gives you the drill hole, and the pad defines the elongated
copper shape.

> I suspect that I am unaware of the heated arguments some of
> these issues must've seen in the period before I joined the list,
> in which case please excuse my raking them up again. :)

It's not heated, it's just nobody has had the time to do it right,
yet.  For example, a true "multipin" (my name) would need to know more
about the physical layer stack than pcb currently knows.  But I do
envision a "multipin" having the ability to independently specify:

* top, inner, and bottom shapes

* copper shapes, including hole-to-edge distance and radius of each
  corner

* pads defined by polygons

* copper, paste, and mask each independently defined

The current plan is to defer this until after the "layer type flags"
project is done, as that project gives us proper mask, paste, etc
layers.


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