Re: gEDA-user: Bugtracker-cleanup

2011-05-23 Thread Felix Ruoff
Thanks a lot for reviewing and committing! Kind regards, Felix Am 23.05.2011 00:49, schrieb Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz: Thanks for taking the time to report the list - status update below. On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 06:01:49PM +0200, Felix Ruoff wrote: Here is the list: a) Patches for

Re: gEDA-user: An opportunity to fix the symbol library

2011-05-23 Thread Karl Hammar
Kai-Martin: Stephen Trier wrote: Kai, try (component-library-search/home/..snip../symbols Unfortunately, it works only for the first layer. Symbols in ../symbols/analog/diode are still ignored. In other words: gschem does not descend recursively into sub dirs. If you are brave, you can

Re: gEDA-user: This morning's treat

2011-05-23 Thread David Griffith
On Mon, 23 May 2011, John Doty wrote: Well, here I am in Osaka. It's Monday morning, and I just saw the prototype Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) for the ASTRO-H space mission under test. Much of the electronics, a large, complex circuit board and some mixed-signal ASICs, is of my design, using gEDA.

Re: gEDA-user: This morning's treat

2011-05-23 Thread Andy Fierman
Well done that man. Cheers,          Andy. On 23 May 2011 05:18, Steven Michalske smichal...@gmail.com wrote: Cool, Got photos? Steve On May 22, 2011, at 6:57 PM, John Doty j...@noqsi.com wrote: Well, here I am in Osaka. It's Monday morning, and I just saw the prototype Soft

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA wiki in read-only mode

2011-05-23 Thread Ales Hvezda
[snip] I'm doing some maintenance on the gEDA wiki this weekend, so it is currently in read-only mode. ... The gEDA wiki is back to read-write mode. -Ales ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread Peter Brett
k...@aspodata.se (Karl Hammar) writes: The code that executes the ...-search command is in libgeda/src/g_rc.c (relative the top of the git repo.), in the function: SCM g_rc_component_library_search(SCM path); I have changed that function to a wrapper around int

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread Karl Hammar
Peter: k...@aspodata.se (Karl Hammar) writes: [about code that enables recursion in component-library-search] Nack, for a number of reasons. 1) GRegex was introduced in GLib 2.14, and during the 1.7.x cycle we are targetting GLib 2.12 or later. 2) This is an absolutely *textbook* example

Re: gEDA-user: This morning's treat

2011-05-23 Thread Dave McGuire
On 5/23/11 2:18 AM, John Doty wrote: CCD driver/temperature controller board. This is a gEDA design, published at https://github.com/noqsi/SXI. Mitsubishi did the layout. They didn't tell me until very late in the game that they wanted a PADS netlist, but that was no problem for gEDA. Video

Re: gEDA-user: Gerber magic numbers

2011-05-23 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:00:35PM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: I am cleaning up the unit handling for the gerber exporter, using the guide at http://www.linux-cae.net/PCB/rs274xrevd_e.pdf Things are mostly straightforward, but I am lost as to the /10 factors in /* These are for

Re: gEDA-user: This morning's treat

2011-05-23 Thread myken
Great! Well done! And pictures would be nice. Robert. On 23/05/11 03:57, John Doty wrote: Well, here I am in Osaka. It's Monday morning, and I just saw the prototype Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) for the ASTRO-H space mission under test. Much of the electronics, a large, complex circuit board and

Re: gEDA-user: Gerber magic numbers

2011-05-23 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Mon, 23 May 2011 11:09:23 -0700 Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:00:35PM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: I am cleaning up the unit handling for the gerber exporter, using the guide at http://www.linux-cae.net/PCB/rs274xrevd_e.pdf Things are mostly

Re: gEDA-user: Gerber magic numbers

2011-05-23 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:00:35 -0700 Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote: Why are the drill numbers divided by 10, and why are they output with leading zeroes? For the Excellon (NC drill) format: “Maximum m.n format supported is 2.4” [1]. That means that the units are 1/10 mil rather than the

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Mon, 23 May 2011 17:13:01 +0200 (CEST) k...@aspodata.se (Karl Hammar) wrote: There are a lot of symbols available at cvs.gedasymbols.org. To make them all available to gschem I have added: (component-library-search ${HOME}/Net/cvs/cvs.gedasymbols.org/www/user) to my ~/.gEDA/gafrc,

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread Karl Hammar
On Mon, 23 May 2011 17:13:01 +0200 (CEST) k...@aspodata.se (Karl Hammar) wrote: The result is as seen in attachment (dump.jpg). Very nice! Thank you. However, for this to be usable wouldn't it be important to have a good I think it usable as is (though not finished). way to import the

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Mon, 23 May 2011 22:18:54 +0200 (CEST) k...@aspodata.se (Karl Hammar) wrote: In the library browser you have the choise to embed the component in the .sch file. I think that might be the solutions for your scenarios. That would be a reasonable solution. I guess I've always overlooked that

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 13:31 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2011 22:18:54 +0200 (CEST) k...@aspodata.se (Karl Hammar) wrote: In the library browser you have the choise to embed the component in the .sch file. I think that might be the solutions for your scenarios. That

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread John Griessen
On 05/23/2011 10:13 AM, Karl Hammar wrote: changed component-library-search to descend into subdirectories (see diff). The result is as seen in attachment (dump.jpg). Dang, that was quick Karl! John ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread John Griessen
On 05/23/2011 11:44 AM, Karl Hammar wrote: comment on the functionality which the screen dump hints you at? Like it. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

2011-05-23 Thread John Doty
I'd like to note that we have a serious power tool in gnetlist, and it's not too hard to get it to translate attributes. Here's an example: gnetplug-metadata.scm Description: Binary data project_metadata.scm Description: Binary data metademo.sch Description: Binary data Usage: gnetlist

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread John Doty
On May 24, 2011, at 12:29 AM, Peter Brett wrote: 3) I strongly recommend *not* using component-library-search because it gives you no control over the precedence ordering of libraries when searching for a symbol name match -- you're entirely at the mercy of the order in which the filesystem

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread Stephen Ecob
I would like to see some options added to the symbol library dialogue: 1. Create a new (e.g. local) library 2. Copy an existing symbol to another (e.g. local) library 3. Create a completely new symbol (perhaps using a wizard interface) Incorporating DJboxsym (or similar) into the wizard

Re: gEDA-user: This morning's treat

2011-05-23 Thread John Doty
Thanks to all for the compliments. But I'm standing on the shoulders of giants, even though said giants: 1. Aren't too happy with me at the moment. 2. Don't seem to understand how tall they are. Note the excessively modest description at http://www.geda.seul.org/wiki/start. This work

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread John Doty
On May 24, 2011, at 5:18 AM, Karl Hammar wrote: In the library browser you have the choise to embed the component in the .sch file. I think that might be the solutions for your scenarios. There are a couple of problems with embedded symbols: 1. You can't edit them. 2. Once embedded, they

Re: gEDA-user: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

2011-05-23 Thread John Doty
On May 23, 2011, at 1:40 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: In a heirarchy, only the higher level schematics know what the heirarchy is, the sub-schematics don't, so the higher ones need to retain the instance-specific data. Hierarchy isn't the only reuse scenario. Consider transition from breadboard to

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Colin D Bennett wrote: In the library browser you have the choise to embed the component in the .sch file. I think that might be the solutions for your scenarios. That would be a reasonable solution. I guess I've always overlooked that option. There is a catch: Unembed works only for

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA wiki in read-only mode

2011-05-23 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Ales Hvezda wrote: The gEDA wiki is back to read-write mode. Fine. So I can go ahead and add the component-search tip. ---)kaimartin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k...@familieknaak.de Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel: http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x6C0B9F53

Re: gEDA-user: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

2011-05-23 Thread DJ Delorie
I'd like to note that we have a serious power tool in gnetlist, Yup. I had hoped to move some of the heavyifying data into a database or the layout (or whatever), and have gnetlist gather all the attribute data from the schematic, the database, and the layout. It can then combine the data in

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread DJ Delorie
but I avoid name conflicts in project libraries. If we find ourselves gaining popularity and a plethora of libraries comes into being, we may no longer have the luxury of avoiding name conflict. name scoping came up a few times in the library discussion, I think keeping the issue in mind, even

Re: gEDA-user: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

2011-05-23 Thread DJ Delorie
Hierarchy isn't the only reuse scenario. Consider transition from breadboard to prototype to production. A top-level schematic might not change, even though attributes of parts might change (different packages, tighter specs, ...). In that case, the instance-specific data can't be in *any*