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

[Peter TB Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Gatliff wrote:
> Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
>   
>> The two other EDA suites I worked (eagle and protel) with maintain the 
>> notion of a "component" that contains all the info. In a way, this is a 
>> very heavy symbol that knows about slots, possible footprints and which 
>> schematic symbols are necessary to represent a complete component.
>>   
>>     
>
> They carry the symbol along with the component though, right?  So if the
> system doesn't know about a component in advance, it won't offer you a
> symbol.
>
> That's not what I want.  I want the concepts of symbols and components
> to be completely separate, tied together only by meta-information that
> says "this circuit can be represented by this symbol", and "this
> component contains these circuits".
>
>
> b.g.
>
>   
You probably want to investigate Bernd's fork, then.

http://repo.or.cz/w/geda-gaf/berndj.git (it's in there somewhere).

Peter


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