Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:28:53AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > but we've still got a user-interface problem.
> 
> We're used to that.
> 
> > So what happens for those users?
> 
> They get exactly one composite, which ends up acting just like what we
> have today - one outline, one set of drills, all copper/insulator are
> on the one plain-built board.
> 
> In our previous example, you'd get (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ...)
>

Okay, but where does that leave us in terms of having multiple drawing
layers on the same physical surface?
 
> "The" pcb is a composite anyway, this just means that pcb's internal
> "PCB" global variable is a composite.  Paste buffers, footprints, etc
> - those are separate composites.
> 
> Of course, no reason why PCB couldn't keep multiple top-level
> composites in memory - we already do, with paste buffers - but editing
> them is the tricky part.  Gschem avoids the problem by only editing
> one schematic at a time in a common window.
>

It would be nice to support multiple .pcbs open at once, and to allow
copy/pasting between them.

Andrew
 


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