On 5 September 2011 14:28, Bob Paddock bob.padd...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for setting up such a service, a well kept secret until now
let's keep this one quite as not to waken the wild hoards of windoze users
;-)
Should windoze users file bug reports in LP for these nightly windows
On 5 September 2011 15:16, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote:
First person to send me a shiny Apple laptop bought themselves that
development work ;) (Seriously).
I have one, but Objective-C and Cocoa are completely alien to me,
otherwise I'd be all over it.
Gareth
On 29 July 2011 12:53, andrew whyte ajwh...@gmail.com wrote:
Unless anyone can see a good reason for obviously biased gEDA users
not to report this?
The ASA's position is that this particular page is editorial content
on a blog, and is not in their purview.
On 27 June 2011 15:38, Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote:
Merge branch 'peter-b/guile-scheme-api'.
Well done, Peter, I know this was a mammoth effort. I'm looking
forward to working with the new API functions.
Cheers
Gareth
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Hi there,
I'm still intermittently working on a parser in Python for the
gEDA/gaf file format and I have a couple of questions that I hope the
list can answer.
1) are there any restrictions on the characters in attribute names and
values (other than no = in the name) ?
2) Can attributes be
Hi there,
I'm working through bringing up a new machine with the gEDA suite from
git HEAD and I thought I'd take the opportunity to create patches to
tidy up some of the autotools files while I'm doing it, but I wanted
to check the intent of the current behaviour before opening
bugs/filing
On 4 June 2011 00:57, Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote:
Currently, the only known problem is that the `drc2' gnetlist backend
is broken.
This is now fixed, and there are no known issues with using the gEDA
main development branch with Guile 2.0.
Nicely done, Peter. Thank you.
On 27 May 2011 05:33, John Doty j...@noqsi.com wrote:
It seems to me that the first step to switching languages here is for
somebody to:
1. Define a mapping of the .sch/.sym file format into a data structure.
2. Implement a parser that reads a file into such a structure.
I don't think this
On 26 May 2011 19:52, Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote:
Although Perl is probably better for string-handling, I think
Python would be a better choice. It feels a lot more like a
Lisp and quite a bit more well-known these days.
+1 for Python from me, even though until very recently I was a
On 4 February 2011 09:28, Andy Fierman andyfier...@signality.co.uk wrote:
Sorry if I seem a bit scathing but it seems less an interesting
article, more a very wordy advert.
It's a house mag, I wouldn't expect any different. My company does one
too. If you pay for publishing it, you get to
More competition from the free-as-in-beer sector for circuit simulation:
http://www.elektor.com/news/free-downloadable-spice-simulator-for-analog.1699331.lynkx
Not sure how closely it's 'tailored' towards ADI though.
/GDE
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Some recent coverage on DesignSpark (written by the TME for the
product) in the RS house rag here (p24):
http://www.easyflip.co.uk/takeiteasy/rscomponents/eTech_-_Issue_5_UK/enter.html
The section Open Source Design Tools in the middle of p25 is worth
reading if you can put up with the Flash
On 27 January 2011 00:00, Stephen Ecob silicon.on.inspirat...@gmail.com wrote:
So there are several use cases for treating copper as non-connecting:
* low value resistors
* fuses
* low value inductors
* aerials
* contacts for solder switches (eg SPDT in solder)
* Transmission lines
On 10 January 2011 00:48, Kai-Martin Knaak k...@lilalaser.de wrote:
Gareth Edwards wrote:
But I don't see this as a reason to hide the existence
of the triage policy from simple bug reporters.
It's not hidden. It's linked right on the bug reporting page.
Your argument against
I wouldn't strongly object to a merge but...
On 8 January 2011 23:31, Kai-Martin Knaak k...@lilalaser.de wrote:
Peter TB Brett wrote:
Nice.
Would you object against a merge with Howto report bugs?
I don't think that one is really needed -- reporting bugs and triaging bugs
are different
On 9 January 2011 19:07, Kai-Martin Knaak k...@lilalaser.de wrote:
But I don't see this as a reason to hide the existence
of the triage policy from simple bug reporters.
It's not hidden. It's linked right on the bug reporting page.
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On 7 January 2011 10:14, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote:
Pick a bug from here:
https://launchpad.net/geda/+bugs?search=Searchfield.status=New (gEDA)
or:
https://launchpad.net/pcb/+bugs?search=Searchfield.status=New (pcb)
Grab git HEAD of whichever package the bug is in (if you don't
Hi
On 8 January 2011 21:26, Kai-Martin Knaak k...@lilalaser.de wrote:
Gareth Edwards wrote:
Think it's worthwhile me trying to capture the process on the wiki
somewhere
IMHO, bug reporting is worth a dedicated page in the wiki.
I just started one at:
http://geda.seul.org/wiki
On 8 January 2011 21:29, Gareth Edwards gar...@edwardsfamily.org.uk wrote:
Think it's worthwhile me trying to capture the process on the wiki
somewhere
http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:bug_triage_guide
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Hi Peter,
On 9 December 2010 10:27, Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote:
Perhaps the time has come to reconsider the role of and access to the gEDA-dev
list? How can we ensure that it doesn't collapse into an unproductive
bikeshedfest again?
Honestly, I don't think that time has come. I
On 21 November 2010 02:05, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote:
On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 22:48 +, Gareth Edwards wrote:
The usability of the Blender 2.5x betas is a step-change from the
existing versions. I'm not saying it's easy, but it's considerably
less insane.
Just installed it, seems
On 19 November 2010 23:03, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote:
On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 14:07 -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
It has to be mentioned that Blender is free and open source but Google
Sketchup is not.
I took that as known, but I don't disprove of using good commercial
software to
On 4 November 2010 23:53, Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote:
After almost 18 months of design, preliminary work, and research, I am
pleased present my latest gEDA Big Project.
### A COMPREHENSIVE SCHEME API FOR gEDA ###
I think it would be better in Tcl.
I'M KIDDING
On 27 October 2010 21:53, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote:
for your amusement...
http://www.eevblog.com/2010/10/27/eevblog-121-geda-interview-with-dj-delorie/
I probably got the odd fact or two wrong, but I think it went well...
Thanks, DJ, I enjoyed watching this.
Cheers
Gareth
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
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 FOSS to the
professional community.
Cheers
Gareth
On 20 September 2010 15:57, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote:
Cambridge or Bristol?
Had I known (and it was Cambridge), I'd have come along!
It was technically under the auspices of the Bristol club, but ARM
hosted a presence in Cambridge. I would have trailed to the list if
I'd spotted
Thanks for all the inputs, all valuable. I'd like to maintain the
fiction that I might hack on gEDA development properly one day so I'm
going to do two things:
1) install it on an Ubuntu VM anyway, as I don't want to be that far
away from a Linux install for other reasons
and
2) have a crack at
I've just ordered a new laptop and have gone over to the Dark Side.
What's the latest best-practice for building and/or running gEDA/gaf
and pcb on OS X? From my minimal knowledge, my options are:
1) VirtualBox an Ubuntu guest OS. This is my fallback, and is how I've
been running gEDA on WinXP
Some free-as-in-beer capture and layout software has been released by
RS Components:
http://www.designspark.com/pcb
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I'm having difficulty getting the new Import Schematic function in PCB
working. I've set import::mode attribute to gnetlist and
import:sch0 to my schematic filename. Running :Import() appears to
do nothing, and the message log says
Can't add rat lines because no netlist is loaded.
What am I
On 26 June 2010 11:17, Gareth Edwards gar...@edwardsfamily.org.uk wrote:
I'm having difficulty getting the new Import Schematic function in PCB
working. I've set import::mode attribute to gnetlist and
import:sch0 to my schematic filename. Running :Import() appears to
do nothing
On 26 June 2010 11:22, Gareth Edwards gar...@edwardsfamily.org.uk wrote:
On 26 June 2010 11:17, Gareth Edwards gar...@edwardsfamily.org.uk wrote:
I'm having difficulty getting the new Import Schematic function in PCB
working. I've set import::mode attribute to gnetlist and
import:sch0 to my
On 26 June 2010 13:38, Gareth Edwards gar...@edwardsfamily.org.uk wrote:
The autotools setup for gaf allows the PCB install directory to be
specified on the ./configure command line - is it arguable that the
setup for PCB should allow the gaf install directory to be specified
On 26 June 2010 17:49, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote:
Note that it's src0, not sch0, to name the input files.
Oops, error in transcription to email - I had it right in the board file.
Cheers
Gareth
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Saw this on the Csound list - may or may not be relevant to the Windows port:
http://www.osnews.com/story/23131/Microsoft_Aims_to_Bring_apt_rpm-like_Tools_to_Windows
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On 11 March 2010 19:33, Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote:
On Thursday 11 March 2010 18:13:11 Duncan Drennan wrote:
Is there some particular developer resistance to LaunchPad?
Moving SF.net tracker items to Launchpad can be done automatically by
requesting an import. That isn't a
On 9 March 2010 18:23, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote:
If developer cycles is the bottle neck, the only solution is to
increase the number of active developers.
That's what I'm trying to do - both reduce the bottleneck, and make it
easier to add more developers.
From my perspective, DJ
On 1 March 2010 22:00, Timothy Normand Miller theo...@gmail.com wrote:
A relatively new professor here at OSU had one of these FPGA boards:
http://www.pender.ch/docs/GR-PCI-XC2V_product_sheet.pdf
Unfortunately, some students recently fried part of the power
regulation circuit. We don't have
I was having a look at this page:
http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:tragesym_readme
and it says
For creating a symbol you have to edit the sourcefile first. You can
use the template.src file, which is in /examples/tragesym/ directory.
Some examples are in the examples/tragesym directory too.
2009/11/27 Torsten Wagner torsten.wag...@gmail.com:
Hi,
I just had to change some footprints for a nearly finished pcb (some
parts was tricky to order from resellers in small quantities).
I used gattrib which allowed me to change the footprints very easily.
After running gsch2pcb, I noticed
Hi John,
2009/11/22 John Doty j...@noqsi.com:
And then, more specific to gnetlist,
http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/Jul-2009/msg00235.html
Do you mind if I copy this into the wiki?
Cheers
Gareth
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2009/11/24 John Doty j...@noqsi.com:
On Nov 24, 2009, at 7:54 AM, Gareth Edwards wrote:
Do you mind if I copy this into the wiki?
Go right ahead.
Done. added here:
http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gnetlist_scheme_tutorial
and linked from here:
http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:guile_scripting
2009/10/31 Bert Timmerman bert.timmer...@xs4all.nl:
Thanks for the patches, they're another step forward.
Reading the patches 0003 and 0004, one question comes to mind: I'm not
aware that there is a doxygen dir (or file) generated that has to be
removed by the distclean-local rule ?
A good
2009/10/2 Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com:
Cheating or not, all the examples he posted look _awesome_! :)
Let's say the objective of the 3D effects/output in PCB were to test
against a 3D model of the whole system--- not just to visualize the
(populated) PCB. Would Blender be the right
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2009/09/24/47028/premier-farnell-buys-design-software-firm-cadsoft.htm
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All,
I've noticed an issue with the wiki page here:
http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:faq-gschem
It says that Scheme script gschem-print.scm should be used, but that
file doesn't seem to be in the HEAD install. Assuming print.scm (which
does exist) is the current script, can someone with edit
I noticed tonight that on this page:
http://www.gpleda.org/developer.html
the section Build repository version of gEDA/gaf seems to be
out-of-date. I don't think item 3:
Type: make which will output the required environment variables (...)
that must be set before the next step.
is still the
Peter Clifton wrote:
Hi guys,
I just merged the pango font stuff to git HEAD.
This is a call for testing, to note any unexpected / undesirable
behaviours which this might have introduced.
Looks spectacular, Peter, many thanks. Nothing obviously wrong so far.
Cheers
Gareth
2009/8/9 Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk:
Does anyone want to help getting a Windows port working (reasonably)
smoothly? Has anyone tested a Windows build recently?
I could pitch in on that. Good place to start?
Cheers
Gareth
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2009/8/9 Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk:
If I remember correctly... *searches mail archives*
http://www.geda.seul.org/mailinglist/geda-dev126/msg00029.html
That's probably a good place to start.
OK, I'll have a play.
Cheers
Gareth
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2009/7/31 Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de:
I don't get hang-ups with debian/squeeze, updated today.
What version of doxygen is that?
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2009/7/31 Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de:
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:23:08 +0100, Gareth Edwards wrote:
I don't get hang-ups with debian/squeeze, updated today.
What version of doxygen is that?
doxygen 1.5.9.1
doxygen on Jaunty is 1.5.8, and I've seen a couple of issues reported
I've tried it with 1.5.9 and all is good. It's a manifestation of this
bug that's causing the problem:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266693
Thanks, everyone who helped.
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2009/7/20 Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de:
Is there any reason stay away from glib functions?
I hope not. I've been (slowly) working on refactoring out the gattrib
listsort and replacing it with the GList implementation.
Gareth
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2009/6/9 Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk:
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 23:29 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:03:53 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
Currently the compiler is plowing through the source of libgeda...
The built was fine. gschem menus show pretty icons now :-)
One of my gEDA/gaf installs I haven't updated for a while has fallen
to bits after I updated to git HEAD.
make reconfig is reporting:
configure.ac:14: required file `config.h.in' not found
at various places - is this important?
make config is then failing at:
configure: creating
It looks like this is the same issue i am having.
2009/6/8 Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de:
On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:12:55 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
gschem just got new pretty menus (with some icons).
Ok, I did a
git clone git://git.gpleda.org/gaf.git
Unfortunately, make
2009/5/12 Joerg joerg...@analogconsultants.com
For guitar pickup modelling, you might like to do a bit of Googling on
spice model guitar pickup or similar.
Yes, that is a very interesting page. This is precisely the kind of
thing I'm interested in. I had no idea the capacitance of the
2009/5/9 John Doty j...@noqsi.com:
There are lots of GUI languages. But the critical thing is defining
the project. For that, there's only one candidate: make. There's
nothing else that can deal with the declarations, rules, and
procedures needed to put together a project using heterogeneous
2009/5/8 Eric Brombaugh ebrombau...@cox.net:
John Griessen wrote:
How about the code intensive hardware system developers that start
a project with FPGA then migrate it to ASIC? What language do they use --
c++?
Typically they'll use a HDL like Verilog or VHDL. Those are generally
Peter Clifton wrote:
The documentation is still probably hideously out of date in other
respects though.
Talking of which...
I've been making a pass through the Doxygen documentation for gattrib in
preparation for some changes I've been planning for a while - I haven't
touched any code yet
Gareth Edwards wrote:
Peter Clifton wrote:
Did you use the master branch of my repository, rather then the
before_pours one?
D'oh. It's the instruction reading blind spot again.
Ok, I've built the right branch now and everything seems copasetic. I'll
use it for my layout for a while
Peter Clifton wrote:
Did you use the master branch of my repository, rather then the
before_pours one?
D'oh. It's the instruction reading blind spot again.
Gareth
Worlds worst alpha tester.
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Is there a way in PCB to get doughtnut pads for pins and vias rather
than solid fills?
There is a drill helper in pcb postscript output, see pcb print- or
postscript-dialog. Or search for term drill helper in mailing list
archive.
Thanks, Stefan. I've been so fixated on Gerber export
Gareth Edwards wrote:
Mark Rages wrote:
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:38 PM, gdedwa...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
I'm having an extremely hard time bringing an EPS logo onto the silk layer
in
You can work around this by opening both files in a text editor and
copying in the silk layer.
Ah, i
DJ Delorie wrote:
pcb has its own tracker on pcb.sourceforge.net
Request 2397497 opened on the paste issue. I'm hoping to take a look at
it myself once I get this board finished.
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