On Apr 29, 2010, at 2:14 AM, Armin Faltl wrote: > To express the many-to-many relation between parts and symbols it uses > a table called "device". This is fed by the infamous device attribute > in the symbol libraries. There's nothing wrong in the theory of DB-design > with it, but the indiscriminate use of this attribute in the symbol-libs > waters the use of this design down to uselessness.
I'm investigating another mechanism to create a part 'class' with some existing data in the part library. Using the device attribute for this causes problems. I am pondering the first portion of the symbol filename. So, 'resistor-1.sym' is part of the 'resistor' class. Any other suggestions? Cheers, Ed _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user