Re: gEDA-user: PCB format wishlist

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 07:22:14PM +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 12:48 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > > We have lines starting with a letter followed by up to 16 decimal
> > > numbers
> > 
> > We are NOT going with another position-determines-meaning file format.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Why?
> 
> Is manually editing the only reason?
> I guess data in most files on our computer hard disc is position
> dependent. Will PCB program still work fine if we insert or delete a few
> bytes in the executable?
>

It's because it's inflexible and unintuitive.

True, most data on the hard disk is position dependent, but between the
hard disk, the kernel and the filesystem driver, we never need to think
about it.


Andrew
 


_______________________________________________
geda-user mailing list
geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user