Re: gEDA-user: My uEDA-designed open source hardware board works!

2009-10-27 Thread Michael Sokolov
asom...@gmail.com wrote: > "Horror" is the correct description of my first thought. EDA is such > an inherently graphical task, a gui seems natural. For a "professional hardware engineer" type: yes. For someone like me: no. Although I've had an active interest in how electronic circuits and di

Re: gEDA-user: My uEDA-designed open source hardware board works!

2009-10-27 Thread asomers
"Horror" is the correct description of my first thought. EDA is such an inherently graphical task, a gui seems natural. But you apparently did without, so maybe I can too? Is uEDA public yet? I'd like to check it out. If you could write a non-gui PCB layout tool, I'd be even more impressed. -A

gEDA-user: My uEDA-designed open source hardware board works!

2009-10-27 Thread Michael Sokolov
I've already posted this great news on the relevant project mailing list, but I thought I'd post it here too: Almost 5 months ago Peter Clifton wrote here: > Thanks. I had quick a look through, and I must say, the SDSL unit is a > very impressive project - far more complex than I'd imagined. > >

Re: gEDA-user: Working on xgsch2pcb-0.1.3 for Gentoo

2009-10-27 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:50:29 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > What I want to have eventually, is a "parts bin" window, where all the > parts yet to be placed are available. The user can then pick them up > just like out of the footprint library. What would be most useful is a way to transfer a selec

Re: gEDA-user: pcb flip-sides

2009-10-27 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:29:05 -0400, Harry Eaton wrote: >> However, not all actions have the expected effect with the export eps >> export HID. For example, >>        --action-string 'SwapSides()' >> does not seem to change the output in any way. This particular action >> string option works fine i

Re: gEDA-user: PCB latest no longer accurate? - git vs cvs

2009-10-27 Thread Dan McMahill
KURT PETERS wrote: >> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:04:29 -0600 >> From: KURT PETERS >> Subject: gEDA-user: PCB latest no longer accurate? - git vs cvs >> To: >> Message-ID: >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> >> I remember earlier on the mail

Re: gEDA-user: Working on xgsch2pcb-0.1.3 for Gentoo

2009-10-27 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 22:40 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > I've not tried the before / after combinations of either, but I wonder > if you're hitting an issue which relates to these patches (either > something they fix, or something a miss-matched combination of them > cause). I've not persona

Re: gEDA-user: Working on xgsch2pcb-0.1.3 for Gentoo

2009-10-27 Thread Christoph Lechner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Clifton wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 00:25 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: > >> unknown action `PF0")' >> unknown action `PF1")' >> unknown action `PF2")' >> unknown action `PF3")' >> unknown action `PF4")' > [...] > > PCB is being asked to run

Re: gEDA-user: Working on xgsch2pcb-0.1.3 for Gentoo

2009-10-27 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 00:33 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 00:25 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: > > > > > Oh -- updating the (non existent) pcb board is not sucessfull > > > Indeed I got the impression of a near chrash, so I send my last post > fast... > > Redraw of GTK/G

Re: gEDA-user: PCB latest no longer accurate? - git vs cvs

2009-10-27 Thread KURT PETERS
> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:04:29 -0600 > From: KURT PETERS > Subject: gEDA-user: PCB latest no longer accurate? - git vs cvs > To: > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > I remember earlier on the mail list that someone commented that thi

Re: gEDA-user: Working on xgsch2pcb-0.1.3 for Gentoo

2009-10-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 00:33 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 00:25 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: PCB gets quite slow when processing very long action scripts (lots of elements). There is a linear search executed O(n) complexity, n times. So O(n^2). Not ideal! I mentally note

Re: gEDA-user: Working on xgsch2pcb-0.1.3 for Gentoo

2009-10-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 00:25 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: > unknown action `PF0")' > unknown action `PF1")' > unknown action `PF2")' > unknown action `PF3")' > unknown action `PF4")' [...] PCB is being asked to run the ".cmd" file produced by gnetlist. For some reason, this is failing. Perhaps yo

Re: gEDA-user: Working on xgsch2pcb-0.1.3 for Gentoo

2009-10-27 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 00:25 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: > > Oh -- updating the (non existent) pcb board is not sucessfull Indeed I got the impression of a near chrash, so I send my last post fast... Redraw of GTK/Gnome windows was blocked. But now its fine again. All elements were put in the

Re: gEDA-user: Working on xgsch2pcb-0.1.3 for Gentoo

2009-10-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 00:15 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 15:09 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > > > The latest version is > > http://geda.seul.org/dist/geda-xgsch2pcb-0.1.3.tar.gz > > > > Although I think I was slack and didn't get a release announcement > out. > > >

Re: gEDA-user: Working on xgsch2pcb-0.1.3 for Gentoo

2009-10-27 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 00:15 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 15:09 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > > > The latest version is > > http://geda.seul.org/dist/geda-xgsch2pcb-0.1.3.tar.gz > > > > Although I think I was slack and didn't get a release announcement > out. > > >

Re: gEDA-user: geda-user Digest, Vol 41, Issue 55

2009-10-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 23:51 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: > I do disable m4 footprints with skip-m4 statement (we can do this > because we have newlib copies for all m4 now). Not to nit-pick too much - but this isn't true. The file-names used in the conversion process are _awful_, and clash quite

gEDA-user: Working on xgsch2pcb-0.1.3 for Gentoo

2009-10-27 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 15:09 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > > The latest version is > http://geda.seul.org/dist/geda-xgsch2pcb-0.1.3.tar.gz > > Although I think I was slack and didn't get a release announcement out. Hello, seems to work fine, I can launch gschem, gattrib and PCB from this tool,

Re: gEDA-user: geda-user Digest, Vol 41, Issue 55

2009-10-27 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 14:07 -0700, Mike Bushroe wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I will try the suggestions. I have gotten many >footprints from [1]gedasymbols.org, and I think I have been on >lucian, too. One question is what folder to download the new foot >prints too so that gsch2pcb

Re: gEDA-user: geda-user Digest, Vol 41, Issue 55

2009-10-27 Thread Mike Bushroe
Thanks for the reply. I will try the suggestions. I have gotten many footprints from [1]gedasymbols.org, and I think I have been on lucian, too. One question is what folder to download the new foot prints too so that gsch2pcb and pcb can find them. I will look into the idea of kee

Re: gEDA-user: PCB latest no longer accurate? - git vs cvs

2009-10-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 14:58 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > We no longer maintain the sourceforge CVS repository, but that web > page documents the GEDA git-to-cvs gateway, which should still work OK > (for anonymous checkouts only). I've updated the page to make the git details a little more prominent

Re: gEDA-user: PCB latest no longer accurate? - git vs cvs

2009-10-27 Thread DJ Delorie
We no longer maintain the sourceforge CVS repository, but that web page documents the GEDA git-to-cvs gateway, which should still work OK (for anonymous checkouts only). ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/ma

gEDA-user: PCB latest no longer accurate? - git vs cvs

2009-10-27 Thread KURT PETERS
I remember earlier on the mail list that someone commented that this web site isn't accurate: [1]http://pcb.gpleda.org/obtaining.html In other words, cvs is no longer maintained, and only the git repos. is up to date. Is this true? And if so, how can we get the web site change

Re: gEDA-user: Information on PCB

2009-10-27 Thread Ineiev
On 10/27/09, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 05:47 +, Ineiev wrote: >> On 10/27/09, Ineiev wrote: >> > Try the attached patch; it introduces SwapSides_nogui action for such >> Awfully sorry, forgot to commit a typo fix; >> and there is no need in `compatible' with GTK and Lesstif

Re: gEDA-user: Information on PCB

2009-10-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 05:47 +, Ineiev wrote: > On 10/27/09, Ineiev wrote: > > Try the attached patch; it introduces SwapSides_nogui action for such > Awfully sorry, forgot to commit a typo fix; > and there is no need in `compatible' with GTK and Lesstif hids > arguments parsing. > > BTW, it s

Re: gEDA-user: TI CC2480 ZigBee (off-topic)

2009-10-27 Thread Tamas Szabo
Hi, John Griessen wrote: > So, is it open hardware licensed? Can we see? So finally I had time to test this board. Actually it is a truly simple board. it has all the components which are necessary to operate (but nothing else) - only need to connect power and peripherals if any. I have no to