Re: gEDA-user: symbol files

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 13, 2009, at 5:29 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote:

> Yep.  The reason this sort of feature isn't being developed (and  
> hasn't
> already *been* developed) is because it's neither clear how to get  
> it right,
> even if it's assumed that it's something that actually fits into  
> the gEDA
> paradigm!  Believe me, Peter C. and I have spent many an hour in  
> coffee shops
> puzzling over the "right way" to do this kind of thing, and still  
> haven't
> worked it out... ;-)

And we have a cautionary example of violating the paradigm that has  
caused much headache: the slotting feature. Trying to make a symbol  
file do more than bind graphics to a single set of relations is  
perilous.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd@xxxxxxxxx




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