On Jun 28, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Bill Gatliff wrote: > John Doty wrote: >> >> Repeat after me: >> >> "There are very few symbols distributed with gEDA that are perfectly >> suited to my project and my design flow." >> > > Agreed! > >> I understand you want to patch over this somehow. > > Not so much "patch over" as to prevent duplication of work by every > gEDA > user out there reimplementing the same symbols and footprints over and > over again.
That's not what you do. You start with an existing symbol file, and just tweak it a little. Easy. > > How many NAND symbols do we need? Right now, it's one for each > different footprint that the symbol relates to. I think that's > unacceptable. How does your plan differ, except by making the process more complicated? You have to put the information *somewhere*. For maximum ease and flexibility, put it in your project's copy of the relevant symbol. You don't need to implement or learn *any* additional capability beyond what Hs gives you. > > Yes, the core of gEDA is incredibly flexible and I don't have any > desire > to change that. I would just rather focus my CPU cycles on design, > and > not ridiculously redundant and error-prone junk like creating a > half-dozen NAND symbols that only differ by one or two lines. That's > grunt work that a silicon CPU should be doing, not me. It is cannot any simpler or less error prone than editing the symbol file. The information has to come from *somewhere*, the computer cannot read your mind... > > > b.g. > > -- > Bill Gatliff > b...@billgatliff.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user