Re: gEDA-user: first impressions on gaf v1.2.0

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[snip]
> I would very much like to move then entire existing symbols package to 
> gedasymbols in favour of a really minimal, lightweight symbol library to be 
> shipped with gEDA.  The existing library can't decide what it's supposed to 
> be.  Are the symbols supposed to be lightweight, or heavyweight?  Are we 
> trying to include all likely devices used, or some definable subset?  By 
> stripping back the -symbols package to a minimum, we can concentrate on 
> providing a good, solid basis for user's to build upon.
> 

Certainly.  I have been waiting to do this for a few years now.  However,
I haven't come up with a appoach that doesn't break every single gEDA/gaf
user in existance.  It would be really sad if a user goes to the 'net and 
downloads some random *.sch files and none of the legacy components are found.

-Ales



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