Hello all,
First of all I want to thank DJ for his excellent work with the HID
version of PCB. I've been playing with it quite a bit and have been
quite impressed. This is a very good direction for the PCB project to
move in as I think it will make it much easier for others to contribute.
A couple of questions about the gerber exporter: Has the gerber export
code changed significantly? I know that its in a new file but I was
unable to quickly tell if the algorithm has changed materially. For
example, are negative lines, etc still used?
Secondly, I think we need to add a check to see if the gerber export
filename exists. When I type in a bogus filename a segfault occurs.
One last issue. I was experimenting with adding another exporter to the
codebase this evening. I noticed that the current autogen.sh does not
actually regenerate Makefile.in. After manually running "automake -a" I
discovered that I needed to comment out quite a few lines in
configure.ac in order to get things to work. On a related note, there
are quite a few "deprecated" files in the src directory such as
dev-gerb* and dev-ps*. Perhaps these could be removed.
Thanks again for all your hard work DJ,
-David Carr
