The solution I always liked was making a simple live CD with the project documentation and all. This is not for distribution it is because about every 6 or 7 years I end up changing tools and can't find anything to read my old stuff.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:19 AM, KURT PETERS<petersk...@msn.com> wrote: > > I've been thinking a bit about gEDA for "open hardware" lately, and > have a few thoughts that I was wondering if people on the list would > help me think through: > > 1) open hardware implies (to me anyways) that someone has produced a > PCB and makes available the schematics, layout, symbols, footprints, > and BOM. > 2) The "new user", wanting to modify the hardware, should be able to > "copy in" a few extra components into the schematic and gsch2pcb back > to pcb, but the previous layout shouldn't be changed at all, just a > few extra components are available to be added. gsch2pcb already > supports this pretty robustly. > 3) the new user then places the new components and adds/modifies > traces as necessary to get it to work. > > The question is, is there an "approved solution" for packaging all the > necessary materials to ensure someone developing hardware can ensure > the "new user" has everything they need to accomplish 1-3 above? I > assume it would extract symbols and footprints and encapsulate the > versions of PCB/Gschem used to create the PCB. I also assume that it > should somehow distinguish between core symbols and footprints, and > "custom" ones. Of course, then, the core ones would also need a > version number, I suppose, in case they change. > > Thoughts??? > Kurt > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > > -- http://www.coe.neu.edu/~efoss/ http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user