Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

[msokolov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Sokolov)]

Bill Gatliff <bgat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Now I'm beginning to see the problems with slotting and symbols the way
> we're doing them now: they unnecessarily tie the concept of a symbol to
> the concept of a component, because the pin numbers that we currently
> record in our symbols are also the pin numbers that the component maps
> to the pins of the component's package.  We have munged together the
> concepts of symbol and component in our "symbol" files, but can't seem
> to admit to that.

You have hit the nail right on the head!  It was this very issue (the
fundamental difference between symbols and components) that played a
major factor in my decision to invent a new schematic file format for
uschem instead of merely writing a tool that prints gschem format
schematics into PostScript without requiring an X11 display or a
"modern" system to compile and run gEDA/gaf with all of its dependencies.

> That's the breakage, methinks.

Yup, the very first thing I have fixed in my fork.

MS


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