On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 10:38 +0200, Kovacs Levente wrote: > On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 16:32:10 -0400 > DJ Delorie <d...@delorie.com> wrote: > > > Arcs can be simulated with many short lines, so the only primitive we > > need are lines. Of course, if "line" is a two-point polygon, then the > > only primitive we need is polygons. > > So, your pcb file would contain nothing but polygons. This would make it > unparsable with external scripts and humans. > > > A point is just a line that starts and ends at the same coordinates. > > I don't like this.
I think (hope) DJ was being sarcastic about the suggestion to store only polygons with no other higher-level information retained. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user