gEDA-user: gnetlist segmentation fault

2010-09-28 Thread Thomas Dean
I have an application which causes a seg fault in gnetlist. I think this can be fixed by changing the schematic. But, Segmentation fault is NEVER the proper response. # gnetlist -g geda ulf-ant.sch Loading schematic [/usr/home/tomdean/Electronics/Spice/ulf-ant/ulf-ant.sch] Segmentation fault

Re: gEDA-user: Zero length pins

2010-09-28 Thread Ineiev
On 9/28/10, kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote: So flexible, that it can't deal properly with µ and ?, let alone right to left scripting, or Chinese. What do you mean? gschem renders both Arabic and Chinese texts without visible problems.

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-28 Thread Karl Hammar
Kai-Martin Knaak: Karl Hammar wrote: Shall we update the distributed sym files so they pass gsymcheck ? Yes, please. .. Should a missing numslots=0 really be a warning? ... ack. It has been quite some time that numslots=0 is not necessary anymore. Ok, a first step would then be: 1,

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-28 Thread Karl Hammar
Karl: Kai-Martin Knaak: Karl Hammar wrote: Shall we update the distributed sym files so they pass gsymcheck ? Yes, please. .. Should a missing numslots=0 really be a warning? ... ack. It has been quite some time that numslots=0 is not necessary anymore. Ok, a first step would

Re: gEDA-user: improved footprint for MSOP10

2010-09-28 Thread Armin Faltl
Currently this may be too much of an honor - I have about no time to maintain that space. Furthermore I'm satisfied with my name as author, if a footprint makes it into the general library. Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Armin Faltl wrote: since the library version footprint MSOP10.fp seems to be

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-28 Thread Andrew Miner
-Original Message- Karl Hammar wrote Ok, a first step would then be: 1, add/correct pintype to the sym files 1a, which programs use pintype 1b, identify the correct meaning of pintype values as used today 1c, add missing pintypes (eg. should we have one for nc) 2, remove

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-28 Thread Karl Hammar
Kai-Martin Knaak: Karl Hammar wrote: Shall we update the distributed sym files so they pass gsymcheck ? Yes, please. .. Should a missing numslots=0 really be a warning? ... ack. It has been quite some time that numslots=0 is not necessary anymore. Ok, a first step would then

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-28 Thread Karl Hammar
Andrew Miner: Karl Hammar wrote ... 1c, add missing pintypes (eg. should we have one for nc) ... +1 for nc since ICs have pins that are labeled that way. Would the DRC just ignore it, or would the DRC complain if it was connected to anything? ... Since nc is just a piece of copper

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-28 Thread Karl Hammar
Karl: 1b, identify the correct meaning of pintype values as used today Since drc2 is the only user of the pintype value, I looked into it. ... Note A, since drc-matrix is symmetric (connection a - b is the same as connection b - a) and it is not directly referenced by anything else

Re: gEDA-user: improved footprint for MSOP10

2010-09-28 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Armin Faltl wrote: Furthermore I'm satisfied with my name as author, if a footprint makes it into the general library. Currently, no footprint makes it to the default lib ... ---)kaimartin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover,

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-28 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Karl Hammar wrote: 1, add/correct pintype to the sym files 1a, which programs use pintype 1b, identify the correct meaning of pintype values as used today 1c, add missing pintypes (eg. should we have one for nc) 2, remove numslots=0 warning from gsymcheck Anything else? 3, remove

Re: gEDA-user: (hierarchy-uref-mangle disabled) doesn't seem to work when generting a bom

2010-09-28 Thread Patrick Bernaud
Hi Mike, Mike Crowe writes: [...] The separator appears to be important even if it is disabled by (hierarchy-uref-mangle disabled) Indeed, the hierarchy-uref-separator is ignored when it comes to separating base uref from full uref with hierarchy. The patch below fixes that problem.

gEDA-user: CVS server of gedasymbols down?

2010-09-28 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Just tried to update my repository at gedasymbols.org. Turns out, the server does not respond. No ping either. The www page is working, though. Any idea whats going on? ---)kaimartin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst.

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA and PCB at DVClub UK - thanks, Chitlesh

2010-09-28 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Gareth Edwards gar...@edwardsfamily.org.uk wrote: I'm sitting listening to the UK DVClub meeting and Chitlesh Goorah is doing an excellent job of talking about Free Electronics Lab, including gEDA and PCB. Well done, Chitlesh and thanks for helping to promote

Re: gEDA-user: CVS server of gedasymbols down?

2010-09-28 Thread DJ Delorie
Just tried to update my repository at gedasymbols.org. Turns out, the server does not respond. No ping either. The www page is working, though. ISP problems. There are *two* WWW servers, but only one of everything else. ___ geda-user mailing

Re: gEDA-user: very backward time step?

2010-09-28 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:52 PM, al davis wrote: It is important to developers that the unstable distros DO package the development branch, to test it and provide feedback. Hamish and Chitlesh, how about it? Ok, I'll try to update Fedora's gnucap this weekend. I've taken over the ownership

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-28 Thread John Doty
On Sep 28, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Karl Hammar wrote: In gnet-drc2.scm: ;; Example: ;; (define dont-check-non-numbered-parts 1) ;; (define dont-check-duplicated-references 1) ;; (define dont-check-one-connection-nets 1) ;; (define dont-report-unknown-pintypes 1) ;; (define

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-28 Thread Karl Hammar
Kai-Martin Knaak: Karl Hammar wrote: ... Should a missing numslots=0 really be a warning? ack. It has been quite some time that numslots=0 is not necessary anymore. ... 2, remove numslots=0 warning from gsymcheck Attached patch does that. Regards, /Karl Hammar - Aspö Data

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA and PCB at DVClub UK - thanks, Chitlesh

2010-09-28 Thread Gareth Edwards
Hi Chitlesh On 28 September 2010 19:03, Chitlesh GOORAH chitlesh.goo...@gmail.com wrote: You can find the slides on http://www.tandvsolns.co.uk/downloads/ Would you mind if I re-presented your slideset to our Hackerspace (below in .sig)? I'm sure most of the members don't know that half of

Re: gEDA-user: CVS server of gedasymbols down?

2010-09-28 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
DJ Delorie wrote: ISP problems. There are *two* WWW servers, but only one of everything else. It is working again. :-) ---)kaiamrtin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-28 Thread Steven Michalske
On Sep 28, 2010, at 6:00 AM, Andrew Miner wrote: would also like to see a pwr_src pin type which would be the output of the voltage regulator (or source). That way the DRC would warn you if you shorted two power sources together or if you forgot to hook one of your power input pins to the

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-28 Thread Steven Michalske
On Sep 28, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Karl Hammar wrote: Since nc is just a piece of copper attached to the (plastic/ceramic) package, why should drc complain? A nc pin would be like pas, but gives no error if unconnected. This is not a true statement, some packages there are Do not connect, some

gEDA-user: PCB: Change default file-filter in open-dialog

2010-09-28 Thread Felix Ruoff
Hello, I wondered, why the file-filter at the open-dialogs of pcb is not selected by default. For me, it is more comfortable if there are just the files shown, which can be loaded by this programm/function. I have also looked at other software and most of them do this this way (the only one

gEDA-user: pcb opengl: ps export malformed

2010-09-28 Thread Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz
Hello, It seems in Peter's pcb branch ps export does not work as intended. For a 2-layer board both front and back copper layers are exported twice, as indicated by console output during export. When using multifile export the *.front.ps and *.back.ps files look like the assembly drawings, and

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Change default file-filter in open-dialog

2010-09-28 Thread DJ Delorie
Please send all patches to the tracker even if you post them online, so that there's less chance of them getting lost and forgotten. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: new footprint guidelines

2010-09-28 Thread Armin Faltl
For all those, that follow the discussion from here or vaguely remember some other rotations: Rick Collins wrote: I had to go through all this some time ago and recently I wanted to iron out all the difficulties so that the assembly house could use my XYRS file (location and rotation data)

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Change default file-filter in open-dialog

2010-09-28 Thread Felix Ruoff
Done. Thanks for the message! Am 28.09.2010 22:43, schrieb DJ Delorie: Please send all patches to the tracker even if you post them online, so that there's less chance of them getting lost and forgotten. ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-28 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Sep 28, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Steven Michalske smichal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 28, 2010, at 6:00 AM, Andrew Miner wrote: would also like to see a pwr_src pin type which would be the output of the voltage regulator (or source). That way the DRC would warn you if you shorted two power

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-28 Thread Steven Michalske
On Sep 28, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Edward Hennessy wrote: Side note: A capabilities attribute that might get a string like 'Current_RMS_supply=1A; current_peak_supply=1...@0.5s' It would be nice to have an attribute to check if a power pin is connected to the proper supply voltage. The

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist segmentation fault

2010-09-28 Thread kai-martin knaak
Thomas Dean wrote: I have an application which causes a seg fault in gnetlist. I think this can be fixed by changing the schematic. The offending symbol is A103 which refers to spice-include-1.sym The symbol contains a spurious attribute netname= with no value. But, Segmentation fault is

Re: gEDA-user: new footprint guidelines

2010-09-28 Thread Rick Collins
At 04:53 PM 9/28/2010, you wrote: For all those, that follow the discussion from here or vaguely remember some other rotations: Rick Collins wrote: I had to go through all this some time ago and recently I wanted to iron out all the difficulties so that the assembly house could use my XYRS

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist segmentation fault

2010-09-28 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 01:19 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: I believe this started with gschem. However, I repeat, seg fault is NEVER a proper response. tomdean ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist segmentation fault

2010-09-28 Thread John Doty
On Sep 28, 2010, at 5:19 PM, kai-martin knaak wrote: Bottom line: The gnetlist really needs to be more fussy on the syntax. Currently it seems to assume m4 where there isn't. In addition, m4 should fail gracefully rather than returning broken strings. Huh? Gnetlist has nothing to do with

Re: gEDA-user: Zero length pins

2010-09-28 Thread kai-martin knaak
John Doty wrote: Unattached, it looks like a little red flag, while with a net attached it disappears. Gnetlist has no trouble treating it as a pin. By the way, on start-up, gschem complains about zero size pins in the log window. IMHO, this check should be removed. You have my

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-28 Thread kai-martin knaak
Karl Hammar wrote: 4, add explicit documentation on the rules in the wiki I'm not the wiki man. I could read the code (I assume you mean drc2) and try to describe it in text, but someone else has to enter it into the wiki. Ok, if you describe the rules here on the list, I'd volunteer to

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-28 Thread kai-martin knaak
Karl Hammar wrote: That way the DRC would warn you if you shorted two power sources together or if you forgot to hook one of your power input pins to the power plane (and only connected it to a capacitor instead). +1 +1 Just today I had a student stumble on an accidental connection of

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Change default file-filter in open-dialog

2010-09-28 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi Felix, -Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Felix Ruoff Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:35 PM To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: gEDA-user: PCB: Change default file-filter in open-dialog