Re: gEDA-user: Broken mail clients

2009-07-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, der Mouse wrote: > > To: > > Reply-To: gEDA user mailing list > > > > Even emacs can't help but send two copies with headers like this. > > Only if you insist on adding the To: address to the Reply-To: address > when sending. If there's a Reply-To:, it's probably there for g

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread Jean-Francois Blavier
John Doty wrote: > But for usability, the issue is one of scripting at a higher level. I > love the way gnetlist interoperates so well with make, but users seem > increasingly impatient and helpless these days. Maybe a missing > ingredient is a Makefile creator. It's worth mentioning that

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread der Mouse
>> My programming is mostly done in java using Eclipse, so I don't deal >> with Make at all. > Ugh. What you gonna do when you need a microcontroller running the > show? Probably about the same thing I'd do if I were to need to put a Windows GUI in front of something: get someone else to do it, g

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread John Doty
On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:15 PM, David C. Kerber wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org >> [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of John Doty >> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:56 PM >> To: gEDA user mailing list >> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: me

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread John Griessen
John Doty wrote: > On Jul 22, 2009, at 1:38 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > >>> I'm all in favor of this. But the right way to do that with a >>> toolkit is usually to wrap the tools with high level scripts. >> Isn't that was the whole gnetlist package *is* though? >> > > > At a certain level it is. Tha

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread John Doty
On Jul 22, 2009, at 1:45 PM, der Mouse wrote: >> I'm all in favor of this. But the right way to do that with a >> toolkit is usually to wrap the tools with high level scripts. Adding >> features to the tools themselves is the "cat -v" approach, the road >> to bloat and inflexibility. > > As muc

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread David C. Kerber
> -Original Message- > From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org > [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of John Doty > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:56 PM > To: gEDA user mailing list > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components > > > On Jul 22, 2009, at 1:38

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread der Mouse
> I'm all in favor of this. But the right way to do that with a > toolkit is usually to wrap the tools with high level scripts. Adding > features to the tools themselves is the "cat -v" approach, the road > to bloat and inflexibility. As much as I agree with the basic point, I think cat -v is no

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread John Doty
On Jul 22, 2009, at 1:38 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > >> I'm all in favor of this. But the right way to do that with a >> toolkit is usually to wrap the tools with high level scripts. > > Isn't that was the whole gnetlist package *is* though? > At a certain level it is. That's its strength. But ther

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread DJ Delorie
> I'm all in favor of this. But the right way to do that with a > toolkit is usually to wrap the tools with high level scripts. Isn't that was the whole gnetlist package *is* though? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread John Doty
On Jul 22, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Bill Gatliff wrote: > John Doty wrote: >> It worries me that people are wiring their scenarios into the tools, >> when gEDA's unique strength is its flexibility. This isn't limited to >> gEDA: it seems to be a programming universal that people feel >> obligated to tu

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:07:54 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > > >> In my case, I use one symbol to refer to all 8/16/32 bits of a GPIO port >> on a microcontroller. I'll use a few bits from that port on one page, >> and a few on another. >> > > Ok, this is a legitimat

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:07:54 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > In my case, I use one symbol to refer to all 8/16/32 bits of a GPIO port > on a microcontroller. I'll use a few bits from that port on one page, > and a few on another. Ok, this is a legitimate case. Still, the common error of unintention

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
John Doty wrote: > It worries me that people are wiring their scenarios into the tools, > when gEDA's unique strength is its flexibility. This isn't limited to > gEDA: it seems to be a programming universal that people feel > obligated to turn simple, flexible toolkits into bloated, inflexibl

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread John Doty
On Jul 22, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:23:40 -0400, John Doty wrote: > >> I'm unhappy that you're putting another complex, opaque, inflexible >> mechanism into the gnetlist *front* end. Put hooks into the front >> end, yes, but leave the back end in control

Re: gEDA-user: Broken mail clients

2009-07-22 Thread der Mouse
> To: > Reply-To: gEDA user mailing list > Even emacs can't help but send two copies with headers like this. Only if you insist on adding the To: address to the Reply-To: address when sending. If there's a Reply-To:, it's probably there for good reason, and it should take specific action to re

Re: gEDA-user: Broken mail clients

2009-07-22 Thread DJ Delorie
This is why... To: Reply-To: gEDA user mailing list Even emacs can't help but send two copies with headers like this. As for receiving, there's a simple procmail rule that eliminates duplicates. :0 Wh: .msgid.lock.$LOGNAME | /usr/bin/formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache.$LOGNAME __

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread DJ Delorie
> Just to be sure: The duplicated pins refer to the same physical pin, > do they? If this is true, a merge of pin lists would be correct. http://www.delorie.com/electronics/m16c-26-adapter/ I have one symbol that's normally used for connectors that maps the whole MCU footprint to be connected to

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread der Mouse
> With its lack of types, declarations and explicit return values > scheme is anything but transparent to the casual hacker. Add to this > the abundance of heavily nested parenthesis and result is black-box > magic to the uneducated eye. C'mon, be fair. In this, it's no different from any other

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:23:40 -0400, John Doty wrote: > I'm unhappy that you're putting another complex, opaque, inflexible > mechanism into the gnetlist *front* end. Put hooks into the front > end, yes, but leave the back end in control, with default behavior > defined in gnetlist.scm. Talk ab

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread John Doty
On Jul 21, 2009, at 10:24 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > As you probably know by now, I try to improve the way gnetlist handles > multi part symbols. As a first step, the list of symbols is sorted > according to refdes. Next would be a merge of symbols with the same > refdes. This would also be th

Re: gEDA-user: Broken mail clients

2009-07-22 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:19:37PM +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Recently there has been an increasing number of people who customarily post > to the list with "geda-u...@seul.org" in both To: and Cc: fields. This > results in my getting two copies of every e-mail you send, and

Re: gEDA-user: Broken mail clients

2009-07-22 Thread b...@billgatliff.com
My mailer does that when I hit reply-all, which I do out of habit. Sorry! Could it be a config problem with the list? Geda-user is the only one that seems to do this to me... b.g. -Original Message- Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:45:26 am To: From: "Peter TB Brett" Subject: gEDA-user

gEDA-user: Broken mail clients

2009-07-22 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi everybody, Recently there has been an increasing number of people who customarily post to the list with "geda-u...@seul.org" in both To: and Cc: fields. This results in my getting two copies of every e-mail you send, and is starting to get irritating. Could you please ensure that your mail cl

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
Gabriel Paubert wrote: > Connect it to an NC symbol to explicitly show that you don't use that > pin in that instance of the symbol. > I'm sloppy, I just leave them open. :) >> If I'm dealing with a wired-OR input, then the same pin might get used >> on several different sheets. And if that

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
Peter TB Brett wrote: > > If it's useful for him, I don't see any reason why he shouldn't implement > it. I don't believe that he's arguing that it should become the default > behaviour. > Agreed. My impression was that he was working on a tool that could become generally available, I was jus

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:07:54AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > The main case I'd like to catch is unintentionally duplicated symbols. If > > both, refdes and all pins are identical, it is safe to assume an error. > > > > Nak. In my case, I use one symbol to refer

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:07:54 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: >> The main case I'd like to catch is unintentionally duplicated symbols. If >> >> both, refdes and all pins are identical, it is safe to assume an error. >> > > Nak. In my case, I use one symbol to refer to al

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:55:33AM +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:28:37 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > Note that I have at least one schematic where the merging of the symbols > > would have duplicated pins; this is intentional and they're supposed to > > be "connected" to

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > The main case I'd like to catch is unintentionally duplicated symbols. If > both, refdes and all pins are identical, it is safe to assume an error. > Nak. In my case, I use one symbol to refer to all 8/16/32 bits of a GPIO port on a microcontroller. I'll use a few

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:28:37 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > Note that I have at least one schematic where the merging of the symbols > would have duplicated pins; this is intentional and they're supposed to > be "connected" together. Just to be sure: The duplicated pins refer to the same physical p