Re: gEDA-user: Parallel Installation of Stable and Unstable gEDA Version

2011-04-13 Thread Tom Pope
> >   But what I am looking for is a good way to switch between the stable >   and the unstable version? I don't have much experience with it but it sounds like the 'alternatives' command is designed for this type of situation: http://linux.die.net/man/8/update-alternatives -Tom Pope __

Re: gEDA-user: Where is pcb-20100929 for Win32 ?

2011-04-13 Thread Tom Pope
I built pcb-20100929 last night using the minipack environment in a virtualbox VM with a fresh Ubuntu 10.10 install. Process was nearly painles: I had to find alternative sources to the ones given in the pixman and gd recipes(it seems like libgd.org has been down for a long time), but that was the

Re: gEDA-user: Where is pcb-20100929 for Win32 ?

2011-04-13 Thread Vaclav Peroutka
> > > I don't want to disturb you too much. But can I get version 20100929 > > of PCB for Windows ? I still use pcb-2009 but I am getting tired > > of "Request for bounding box of unsupported type 1024" bug. I found > > that the problem is fixed in the pcb-2010 version. > > I wasn't able to

Re: gEDA-user: Spam Email to This List

2011-04-13 Thread Abhijit Kshirsagar
Got it, deleted it. ~Abhijit On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 17:21, rickman <[1]gnuarm.g...@arius.com> wrote: I use a separate email address for this list and that address received a spam email. � It doesn't look like that email came through this list, but rather the list was s

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 22:26 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > pin[pinnumber=1] { > pinnumber="99"; > } And regarding stuff like the above - where we key off one attribute and change it in the rule, IF that is ever legal - we should do it like a PLC executes its processing cycles. Freeze a view

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-13 Thread DJ Delorie
> That is ancestory. I'm a big fan of backwards compatibility :-) But it does point out that no one style seems to have a clear majority of the mindset :-P ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listin

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 16:58 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > I thought we used "/" for netlist hierarchy. At least - that is what I > > coded for the netlist viewer in PCB. > > I suggested Attributes use : to "assign" attributes to owners, to > avoid conflict. That is a good separator prefix for name

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 22:16 +0200, Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz wrote: > So we are more or less looking at a simplified hierarchical path syntax, where > elements without explicit id= provide default id based on the type and other > attributes? > > Examples: > U1.1.net=Vcc (global attribute, pinnum

gEDA-user: Parallel Installation of Stable and Unstable gEDA Version

2011-04-13 Thread Markus Traidl
Hello, currently I am using gEDA 1.6.2 on a Ubuntu Linux System in a VirtualBox -> this runs very good. For test reasons, I would like also to install the 1.7.x version of gEDA. I can do it at a different place - that's no problem. But what I am looking for is a good way to swi

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-13 Thread DJ Delorie
> I thought we used "/" for netlist hierarchy. At least - that is what I > coded for the netlist viewer in PCB. I suggested Attributes use : to "assign" attributes to owners, to avoid conflict. Like PCB:background-color=yellow The syntax for what the owner owns can be different. PCB:drc.si

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 16:23 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > We'd have to work a bit on the syntax, precedence, resolution rules and how > > to > > For PCB attributes, we're going with foo:bar for heirarchy (or at > least grouping), so U3:14.net=+5v ? > > (: for heirarchy, . for attributes ?) I tho

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-13 Thread DJ Delorie
> We'd have to work a bit on the syntax, precedence, resolution rules and how to For PCB attributes, we're going with foo:bar for heirarchy (or at least grouping), so U3:14.net=+5v ? (: for heirarchy, . for attributes ?) ___ geda-user mailing list ge

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-13 Thread Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 04:31:03PM +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > This is a really neat idea.. > > P pin number ":1" doesn't really matter, it is just a way of referring > to a particular pin. If we could reference by other means, that would > also be cool. I'm thinking of some kind of "id=..." at

Re: gEDA-user: Spam Email to This List

2011-04-13 Thread gedau
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:36:20AM -0400, rickman wrote: > On 4/13/2011 8:56 AM, ge...@igor2.repo.hu wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 01:02:40PM +0100, Andrew Seddon wrote: >>> Yes I got this. >>> >>> OT: I'm new hear so please feel free to ignore this comment, but might >>> it be worth switching

Re: gEDA-user: Tragesym template problem.

2011-04-13 Thread Werner Hoch
Hi Daniel, On Samstag, 19. März 2011, Daniel Ross wrote: > Hello, I am trying to fill out the Tragesym template for an > ATmega128RFA1, but the script gives me an error when I pass it the > CSV file (renamed to a ".sch" file): > > "error: version attribut missing" >

Re: gEDA-user: Where is pcb-20100929 for Win32 ?

2011-04-13 Thread Bob Paddock
> is mostly on my end (getting a build environment set up seems more > problematic than I expected). Using the minipack build environment has been working for building the Windows version. > If anyone wants to help make the process more robust, feel free :-) If the steps for creating the release

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Panelisation and outline layers

2011-04-13 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:38:05AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > Another option is to look at gerbv and see if it has merging > capabilities. I know PCB is careful to use a consistent set of > apertures across gerbers; Yes, and thank you very much for that feature... I've used it to merge layers (m

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Panelisation and outline layers

2011-04-13 Thread DJ Delorie
DJ's Panelization Scripts: http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/dj_delorie/ pcb2panel - combines boards into a "panel" board (outline for each board as an element) for easy editing). panel2pcb - reads panel board and input pcb's, produces a composite panel pcb. Although I've never d

Re: gEDA-user: Where is pcb-20100929 for Win32 ?

2011-04-13 Thread DJ Delorie
> I don't want to disturb you too much. But can I get version 20100929 > of PCB for Windows ? I still use pcb-2009 but I am getting tired > of "Request for bounding box of unsupported type 1024" bug. I found > that the problem is fixed in the pcb-2010 version. I wasn't able to build the win32

Re: gEDA-user: Where is pcb-20100929 for Win32 ?

2011-04-13 Thread Vaclav Peroutka
> >Hmm... I used to get that error on Linux, but it never bothered me (I >used PCB fine.) Just leave the message log open in the background and >it won't bother you. I have the message log open but GUI freezes. I have to close PCB and restart it

Re: gEDA-user: Where is pcb-20100929 for Win32 ?

2011-04-13 Thread Thomas Oldbury
Hmm... I used to get that error on Linux, but it never bothered me (I used PCB fine.) Just leave the message log open in the background and it won't bother you. On 13 April 2011 13:19, Vaclav Peroutka <[1]vacla...@seznam.cz> wrote: Hello all, I don't want to disturb you too

Re: gEDA-user: Spam Email to This List

2011-04-13 Thread rickman
On 4/13/2011 8:56 AM, ge...@igor2.repo.hu wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 01:02:40PM +0100, Andrew Seddon wrote: Yes I got this. OT: I'm new hear so please feel free to ignore this comment, but might it be worth switching to google groups or similar? The interface is nice and you can use it like

Re: gEDA-user: Spam Email to This List

2011-04-13 Thread gedau
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 01:02:40PM +0100, Andrew Seddon wrote: > Yes I got this. > > OT: I'm new hear so please feel free to ignore this comment, but might > it be worth switching to google groups or similar? The interface is > nice and you can use it like a traditional mailing list if desired. L

gEDA-user: PCB Panelisation and outline layers

2011-04-13 Thread Tom Pope
Hi all, First I'd like to say thanks to all the gEDA devs for creating such a great EDA package. After the initial learning curve and time spent learning all the little quirks and file formats, I much prefer gEDA over the commercial packages I've had to use. I've just started panelising some desi

gEDA-user: Where is pcb-20100929 for Win32 ?

2011-04-13 Thread Vaclav Peroutka
Hello all, I don't want to disturb you too much. But can I get version 20100929 of PCB for Windows ? I still use pcb-2009 but I am getting tired of "Request for bounding box of unsupported type 1024" bug. I found that the problem is fixed in the pcb-2010 version. Thank you in advance, Vacl

Re: gEDA-user: Spam Email to This List

2011-04-13 Thread David C. Kerber
Yes, a while back IIRC. > -Original Message- > From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org > [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of rickman > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 7:52 AM > To: gEDA user mailing list > Subject: gEDA-user: Spam Email to This List > > I use a separa

Re: gEDA-user: Spam Email to This List

2011-04-13 Thread Thomas Oldbury
I got mail too. I deleted it. On 13 April 2011 12:51, rickman <[1]gnuarm.g...@arius.com> wrote: I use a separate email address for this list and that address received a spam email. It doesn't look like that email came through this list, but rather the list was somehow harves

Re: gEDA-user: Spam Email to This List

2011-04-13 Thread Andrew Seddon
Yes I got this. OT: I'm new hear so please feel free to ignore this comment, but might it be worth switching to google groups or similar? The interface is nice and you can use it like a traditional mailing list if desired. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:51 PM, rickman wrote: > I use a separate email

Re: gEDA-user: Spam Email to This List

2011-04-13 Thread Felix Ruoff
Yes, I got a mail from him/them at 12.March 2011. I think, someone from this firm reads the list, too. He can extract the mail-adresses from each sender. So, no need to hack the list-software itself. Best regards, Felix Am 13.04.2011 13:51, schrieb rickman: I use a separate email address for t

gEDA-user: Spam Email to This List

2011-04-13 Thread rickman
I use a separate email address for this list and that address received a spam email. It doesn't look like that email came through this list, but rather the list was somehow harvested for email addresses and the message sent directly. Did anyone else get an email from s...@jxtpcb.com with the

Re: gEDA-user: OFF: capacitors for RF power amplifier

2011-04-13 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:31:24AM +0100, Andy Fierman wrote: > If you are going to model the PA - particularly to look at resonance > effects - then you should include reasonably accurate models for the > inductors and capacitors which include their major parasitic > components. > > The Murata Ch

Re: gEDA-user: RFC using SVG with semantic markup as an EDA format

2011-04-13 Thread Andrew Seddon
If anybody's interested there's a lot of info on previous attempts to produce standards based EDA formats here; http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlAndEDA.html this is probably old hat to many of you! My assessment is; 1. They tried to cover way too much in one go with edaXML, PCB's, MCM, fat symbols,

Re: gEDA-user: OFF: capacitors for RF power amplifier

2011-04-13 Thread Russell Dill
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Andy Fierman wrote: > If you are going to model the PA - particularly to look at resonance > effects - then you should include reasonably accurate models for the > inductors and capacitors which include their major parasitic > components. > > The Murata Chip S-Para

Re: gEDA-user: OFF: capacitors for RF power amplifier

2011-04-13 Thread Andy Fierman
If you are going to model the PA - particularly to look at resonance effects - then you should include reasonably accurate models for the inductors and capacitors which include their major parasitic components. The Murata Chip S-Parameter & Impedance Library is a handy tool for looking at their ce