Peter, Again please don't try to put words in my mouth. I didn't say "that they may never appear!" I have said that the work I am doing requires them and as such I can't use the standard geda. But in a sense this is what is wonderfull about open source and geda. The code is available to be used as a starting point to let you change it to do what you need it to do. I have now built two very complex boards with modified varients of geda that can do hierarchical buses and I am approaching distributed back annotation.
I agree these features are very much on the want list. But I can't wait another 4 years for the standard geda to catch up with what I can do today. If you are designing a complex board and want to do it hierarchicaly including buses then geda isn't capable, not today. I wouldn't even suggest others take my modified version and try to do it unless you are willing to do extra work that isn't neccessary with commercial tools. Please, don't think I am running down GEDA that is not my intention. GEDA is a tool and a tool should be used with an understanding of its capabilities. Thanks, Steve Meier On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 18:12 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Tuesday 03 July 2007 09:09:10 Steve Meier wrote: > > > 2) Do you need hierarchical Buses? > > > > 3) Do you need back anotation? > > > > If you answer yes to any of these then geda/pcb isn't there yet and may > > never be. If you would like to discuss your project requirements either > > here or more privately don't hesitate to ask. > > Both of these are definitely on the "want very much" list. I think it's a > little unfair to say that they may never appear! > > Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user