Bill Gatliff <b...@billgatliff.com> wrote: > Now I'm beginning to see the problems with slotting and symbols the way > we're doing them now: they unnecessarily tie the concept of a symbol to > the concept of a component, because the pin numbers that we currently > record in our symbols are also the pin numbers that the component maps > to the pins of the component's package. We have munged together the > concepts of symbol and component in our "symbol" files, but can't seem > to admit to that.
You have hit the nail right on the head! It was this very issue (the fundamental difference between symbols and components) that played a major factor in my decision to invent a new schematic file format for uschem instead of merely writing a tool that prints gschem format schematics into PostScript without requiring an X11 display or a "modern" system to compile and run gEDA/gaf with all of its dependencies. > That's the breakage, methinks. Yup, the very first thing I have fixed in my fork. MS _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user