Re: gEDA-user: Switch gschem to another scripting language?

2009-11-22 Thread John Griessen
John Doty wrote: > On Nov 18, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: >> What really pains me - is that development has pretty much stagnated - >> because we can't seem to get _anything_ new into the suite to help >> provide basic functionality other packages take for granted. > > 1. gEDA is fundam

Re: gEDA-user: Switch gschem to another scripting language?

2009-11-22 Thread Dave McGuire
On Nov 22, 2009, at 9:24 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: >>Agreed 100%. I don't want my tools dumbed-down because some of > > When it comes to scripting in geda, there is not much to dumb down in > the first place. I think gEDA is very scriptable. Look at the amazing stuff Karel did with t

Re: gEDA-user: Switch gschem to another scripting language?

2009-11-22 Thread John Doty
On Nov 22, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:03:29 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: > >> On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:24 PM, you wrote: >>> 1. There are lots of folks who whine about learning another >>> language. >>> "I already know TCL, so why should I learn Scheme?" As

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-22 Thread Andrzej
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: > > See this old diagram Peter B and I drew: > > http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:data_structure_design_discussion?s=data% > 20structure That looks perfect to me. In fact it is almost identical to what I use in pschem. Is there any particular re

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-22 Thread John Doty
On Nov 22, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > However, extreme flexibility comes at a price. The price is non- > intuitive > syntax Every syntax is non-intuitive to somebody. The advantage of Scheme is that it's so clean and simple you don't need much intuition. These days you do

Re: gEDA-user: Switch gschem to another scripting language?

2009-11-22 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:03:29 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:24 PM, you wrote: >> 1. There are lots of folks who whine about learning another language. >> "I already know TCL, so why should I learn Scheme?" As John Doty says, >> this attitude stinks. The very same John D. co

Re: gEDA-user: OT: Learning Scheme? WAS: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-22 Thread Mark Stanley
On Sunday 22 November 2009 16:01:04 John Doty wrote: > On Nov 22, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Mark Stanley wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 09:41 -0700, John Doty wrote: > >> But what is it about engineers that I hear constantly "I don't want > >> to learn..." from them? So unprofessional. For something com

Re: gEDA-user: Switch gschem to another scripting language?

2009-11-22 Thread Dave McGuire
On Nov 22, 2009, at 7:03 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > PCB's scripting language is, of course, C :-) > > Most systems come with a script compiler called "gcc" too. You're a mean, bad man. ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL ___ geda-u

Re: gEDA-user: Switch gschem to another scripting language?

2009-11-22 Thread DJ Delorie
PCB's scripting language is, of course, C :-) Most systems come with a script compiler called "gcc" too. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Switch gschem to another scripting language?

2009-11-22 Thread Dave McGuire
I've gotta jump in with my $0.02 here. On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:24 PM, you wrote: > 1. There are lots of folks who whine about learning another > language. "I already know TCL, so why should I learn Scheme?" As > John Doty says, this attitude stinks. It implies that the person with > this att

gEDA-user: Switch gschem to another scripting language?

2009-11-22 Thread Stuart Brorson
> Why have we so much scheme in gEDA? Back when Ales was architecting the gEDA suite, he make gschem the GUI program which allowed one to draw a schematic. It only held the concepts of graphical objects like line, arc, net segment, text, etc. He created a separate program, gnetlist, which held a

gEDA-user: pcb20091103, --enable-m4lib-png, but no png pictures

2009-11-22 Thread Stefan Salewski
Can you please check if there is an effect of option -enable-m4lib-png for latest pcb20091103 snapshot. On AMD64 I have not manage to get the png pictures of footprints. Of course I do not need or want them, but we have to decide if we give gentoo users this option (USEFLAG). (I have to admit that

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-22 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:25:43 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > The downside is, it would make communication with peers more difficult. Just wanted to add, that I have been cursed eagle more than once for the obstacles they put into peer-to-peer communication. With eagle you can easily share a p

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-22 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:32:08 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: >> Scheme is one of the simplest programming languages there is. It's simplicity is much like the game of go -- Just four short rules need to be obeyed. Yet, the actual game is so complex that computers have yet to consistently beat top

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-22 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:33:54 -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Keeping the data primitives separated until the last minute would make > external scripting easier and more consistent, The downside is, it would make communication with peers more difficult. Currently, I can pass heavy symbols and the co

Re: gEDA-user: OT: Learning Scheme? WAS: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-22 Thread John Luciani
You could also try some of the links at [1]http://www.schemers.org (* jcl *) -- You can't create open hardware with closed EDA tools. twitter: [2]http://twitter.com/jluciani blog:[3]http://www.luciani.org References 1. http://www.schemers.org/ 2. http://twitter.com/jl

Re: gEDA-user: OT: Learning Scheme? WAS: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-22 Thread John Doty
On Nov 22, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Mark Stanley wrote: > On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 09:41 -0700, John Doty wrote: >> But what is it about engineers that I hear constantly "I don't want >> to learn..." from them? So unprofessional. For something complex and >> obfuscated, the time factor comes in, but Schem

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-22 Thread Stephan Boettcher
Bill Gatliff writes: > Stephan Boettcher wrote: >> Remotely related to this topic, I had this idea: >> >> Often, there are several choices for footprint, model, whatever >> attribute that need to to chosen at some point in the flow. We have >> proposals >> for a kind of database to support the

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: AutoRouter (Stefan Salewski)

2009-11-22 Thread KURT PETERS
> Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:32:48 -0500 (EST) > From: myjunk stuff > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: PCB: AutoRouter (Stefan Salewski) > To: gEDA user mailing list > Message-ID: > <18804493.189581.1258900368473.javamail.carzr...@mail.srv.lgcyny1.cv.n et> > >

gEDA-user: OT: Learning Scheme? WAS: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-22 Thread Mark Stanley
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 09:41 -0700, John Doty wrote: > But what is it about engineers that I hear constantly "I don't want > to learn..." from them? So unprofessional. For something complex and > obfuscated, the time factor comes in, but Scheme is one of the > simplest programming languages there is

Re: gEDA-user: Teardrops plugin

2009-11-22 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi all, Bert Timmerman wrote: > Hi all, > > Vincent Onelli wrote: >> From: Steven Michalske >> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Teardrop plugin >> To: gEDA user mailing list >> Message-ID: >> >> On Nov 19, 2009, at 6:03 AM, Vincent Onelli wrote: >> > Hello, >>

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-22 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 09:41 -0700, John Doty wrote: > > But what is it about engineers that I hear constantly "I don't want > to learn..." from them? So unprofessional. For something complex and > obfuscated, the time factor comes in, but Scheme is one of the > simplest programming language

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-22 Thread John Doty
On Nov 20, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Steven Michalske wrote: > > On Nov 20, 2009, at 7:15 AM, Stuart Brorson wrote: > >> As an alternative to scheme, some would prefer to see TCL. I have no >> problem with that, as long as the interpreter is built-in. However, >> there is a large installed base of sche

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: AutoRouter (Stefan Salewski)

2009-11-22 Thread myjunk stuff
> I'm not sure why, but I assume it has something to do with prejudice > against java. Regards, > Kurt I use Java for most of my programming, it's pretty good. BTW, have you seen jFreeChart? Very nice graphing package. gene ___ geda-user mailing

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: AutoRouter (Stefan Salewski)

2009-11-22 Thread KURT PETERS
> Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:56:34 +0100 > From: Stefan Salewski > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: PCB: AutoRouter > To: gEDA user mailing list > Message-ID: <1258847794.4126.40.ca...@amd64-x2> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 12:40 +1300, Antho

gEDA-user: Introducing pschem

2009-11-22 Thread Andrzej
(Cc: psc...@googlegroups.com) I've been recently working on my own schematic editor, pschem, which is based on a slightly different circuit design paradigm than gEDA. In particular, it is built around a design database that abstracts an API for accessing and manipulating the circuit description. T

Re: gEDA-user: hierarchy browser app take 2

2009-11-22 Thread gene glick
sorry for that - somehow my email client went all squirrelly and didn't display the message content. You can ignore this take 2 version. gene ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: hierarchy browser app take 2

2009-11-22 Thread gene glick
Wow - what happened to my last email? OK, here's another attempt . . . I am working on a program, and it has a side benefit that displays the schematic hierarchy. Is that something anyone could use? Here's a sample output: ./ampzilla-base_pg1.sch ./S2/fpga_pg1.sch ./S2/fpga_pg2.sch ./S2/fpga_

gEDA-user: hierarchy browser app

2009-11-22 Thread gene glick
I'm working on something, and a side effect of it outputs the schematic hierarchy. Is this useful to anyone? The syntax is '.' is the top-most directory of the schematic. '/' separates the paths and the schematic name. So, for example, ./schematic1.sch is a schematic located at the root of th