Re: gEDA-user: sym files sorting

2009-10-05 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:35:53 + (UTC), Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: >> How about adding the ability to "prettify" a schematic/symbol file to >> gschlas? > > Can I have this for Christmas, please? ;-) At the moment I'm taking an (extended) break from OSS software development, due to a combination o

Re: gEDA-user: sym files sorting

2009-10-05 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 21:34:12 -0700, Steven Michalske wrote: > On Sep 22, 2009, at 7:34 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > >> The gschem gui seems to append new items to the bottom of the file. >> As a >> consequence, symbols done with the GUI are a pain to edit in a text >> editor. Pins mix with comm

Re: gEDA-user: Color PS output

2009-09-30 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 21:23:06 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:32:43 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: > >> Dang. It really is bust. *grumble* > > > > Okay, I managed to get it working by making sure that my > > > > (output-color &qu

Re: gEDA-user: Color PS output

2009-09-30 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 19:14:18 Gareth Edwards wrote: > 2009/9/30 Matt Ettus : > > Is there a way to have the postscript output have a white background > > without changing the on-screen colors? > > > > Thanks, > > Matt > > I couldn't get a white background even when I changed the on-scree

Re: gEDA-user: Color PS output

2009-09-30 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 20:00:52 Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Wednesday 30 September 2009 19:35:06 Peter TB Brett wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 September 2009 16:37:52 evan foss wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I just tried to generate color Postscript output in bo

Re: gEDA-user: Color PS output

2009-09-30 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 19:35:06 Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Wednesday 30 September 2009 16:37:52 evan foss wrote: > > Hi, > > I just tried to generate color Postscript output in both > > 1.5.2.20090328 and 1.5.4.20090830 and found that it won't work. Is > >

Re: gEDA-user: Color PS output

2009-09-30 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 16:37:52 evan foss wrote: > Hi, > I just tried to generate color Postscript output in both > 1.5.2.20090328 and 1.5.4.20090830 and found that it won't work. Is > anyone else having this problem? My gschemrc file has > > (output-color "enabled") ; for color posts

Re: gEDA-user: Testing gEDA 1.5.4 for Gentoo-Linux

2009-09-29 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 21:56:19 Stefan Salewski wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 21:43 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > --without-libstroke (as you would know if you'd checked ./configure > > --help). > > Thanks. > > Of course I have checked ./configure -

Re: gEDA-user: Testing gEDA 1.5.4 for Gentoo-Linux

2009-09-29 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:28:33 Stefan Salewski wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 22:00 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have started writing an ebuild (install script) for Gentoo Linux for > > the upcoming gEDA 1.6. > > In build.log we have > > checking pkg-config is at leas

Re: gEDA-user: Testing gEDA 1.5.4 for Gentoo-Linux

2009-09-29 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 21:00:45 Stefan Salewski wrote: > I think for gEDA 1.4.3 we had --disable-stroke. Now --without-stroke and > -disable-stroke seems to be unrecognized. How can we disable stroke if > libstroke is installed, but we do not want to use it? > --without-libstroke (as you wo

Re: gEDA-user: Exploding BOM

2009-09-23 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 24 September 2009 02:10:48 Tony Radice wrote: > Hints are greatly appreciated - my next step is to try a different > netlist routine. (Anthony Shanks) Did you try -g bom2? I thought I'd eliminated the possibility of stack overflows in that backend. IMHO it's also superior to -g b

Re: gEDA-user: Peter Wiley-Cordone is out of the office.

2009-08-20 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 20 August 2009 19:08:58 peter.wiley-cord...@bbh.com wrote: > I will be out of the office starting 08/20/2009 and will not return until > 08/26/2009. > > I will respond to your message when I return. Oh dear, I hope we don't get this message for every geda-user posting for the next we

Re: gEDA-user: PANGO FONTS MERGED: Call for testing

2009-08-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 18 August 2009 20:55:47 Ethan Swint wrote: > On 08/18/2009 03:53 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 August 2009 20:47:12 Ethan Swint wrote: > >> On 08/18/2009 08:22 AM, Peter Brett wrote: > >>> Duncan Drennan > >>> > >>&g

Re: gEDA-user: PANGO FONTS MERGED: Call for testing

2009-08-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 18 August 2009 20:47:12 Ethan Swint wrote: > On 08/18/2009 08:22 AM, Peter Brett wrote: > > Duncan Drennan > > > > writes: > >> On cygwin: > >> > >> ./configure --prefix=/home//geda > >> > >> [snip] > >> configure: error: GLib 2.12.0 or later is required. > >> > >> The latest officia

Re: gEDA-user: PANGO FONTS MERGED: Call for testing

2009-08-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:28:49 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > I tried (and failed) to find a vector format OpenOffice could paste. > Basically it will only accept its own format for vector drawing (even > WMF/EMF paste an image when accepted via the clipboard). The converters > I found to emit the r

Re: gEDA-user: Pin-pin rubberbanding

2009-08-13 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 13 August 2009 09:04:23 Link wrote: > > Sorry for replying to a very old thread, but I was wondering what ever > became of this. It hasn't been merged into the git tree, AFAIK, and it's > something I /really/ miss in gschem. > > So, is there any intention of merging this patch into the

Re: gEDA-user: feature propriety. was Re: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg

2009-08-12 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 20:27:28 Jason wrote: > John Doty wrote: > [huge snip] > > > I have no objection to wrappers. What I object to is the constant > > demand to fix perceived problems by violating the fairly clean, > > modular nature of the kit. Rather, we need to make things *more* > > mod

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg

2009-08-12 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 17:53:35 Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Wednesday 12 August 2009 17:35:21 John Doty wrote: > > [stuff] > > This doesn't seem like a very constructive conversation, and neither does > it seem to be making any progress towards an interesting conclusion.

gEDA-user: [PATCH] build-sys: Add check for groff html driver. [2836109]

2009-08-12 Thread Peter TB Brett
Some distributions, such as Ubuntu, do not install the groff HTML device by default, and an additional package must be installed to provide it. AX_PROG_GROFF therefore needs to check that groff is able to create HTML files. --- Hi Stefan, Can you please try this out and see if gEDA builds success

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg

2009-08-12 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 17:35:21 John Doty wrote: > [stuff] This doesn't seem like a very constructive conversation, and neither does it seem to be making any progress towards an interesting conclusion. Could you gentlemen please take it off-list? Cheers,

gEDA-user: Appeal for transations

2009-08-10 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi everybody, We're getting towards the point of being able to make a release, but many of our translations are quite incomplete. We'd really appreciate it if any of you who are able to speak languages other than English would be kind enough to head towards the Launchpad translations page [1] and

Re: gEDA-user: August freedog sprint/cookout is the 29th

2009-08-10 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:12:00 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > Those who wish to attend vitually can join us on #geda. > Those who wish to get together in other locations may, but I'm not > coordinating it ;-) I'm afraid I'll be on a climbing holiday in France. Have fun! Peter -- Peter Brett Remote

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg

2009-08-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:54:03 + (UTC), Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:45:34 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: > >> One project I've had in mind for a while is to write a "geda-netlist" > > And thus increment the number of netlisters associate

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg

2009-08-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 12:09:01 -0600, John Doty wrote: > With the exception of the flow from gschem to layout in another > suite, which works radically well. How to generalize? Well, if you > want to export schematics instead of just netlists and BOM's, a > gnetlist back end needs access to al

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg

2009-08-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 17:17:17 +0100, Gareth Edwards wrote: > 2009/8/9 Peter TB Brett : >> >> 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 star

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg

2009-08-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 11:56:22 -0400, al davis wrote: >> [snip] >> >> gEDA is friendly to everything BUT Windows, >> >> [snip] > > I was out of town when this hit (which was probably fortunate). > > What are we going to do about it? > > [snip] > > ... there is a problem with the geda > interface.

gEDA-user: build-system branch merged

2009-08-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi everybody, The build-system branch has now been merged. Please report any problems to the usual places. Best wishes, Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message p

Re: gEDA-user: Progress with unified build

2009-08-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:20:20 + (UTC), Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:11:50 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: > >> It seems that the entire version control history of gEDA so far is >> smaller than the resulting built package. ;-) > > IMHO, this is because

gEDA-user: [PATCH] Use libtool 1.5.x macros ( AC_PROG_LIBTOOL instead of LT_INIT).

2009-08-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:09:41 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: > gEDA can be successfully compiled and installed in one pass, with none > of the, "Install X, *then* you can compile Y," messing about that we > currently have. Check it out! > > git clone git://repo.o

Re: gEDA-user: Progress with unified build

2009-08-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:09:52 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 09:10 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: >>[...] >> >> total: 18.8 Mb >> > > For most of us with fast internet access this is very small, but we > should in general case not forget that there exist people on earth with

Re: gEDA-user: Progress with unified build

2009-08-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:54:20 +0200, Ivan Stankovic wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 02:16:24PM +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: >> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 12:26:25 +0200, Ivan Stankovic >> >> wrote: >> >> > which needs git tags to work. However, my local clone doesn&#

gEDA-user: [PATCH] Use git describe --always to check git version.

2009-08-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
escribe fails with > > fatal: cannot describe '6dc3b67fb796278954d8440a1ab1950b988146f7' Hi Ivan, Please try the attached patch. Regards, Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space CentreFrom 2cb8c2a82bd54e89e13716833f861538d5a59545 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 F

Re: gEDA-user: Progress with unified build

2009-08-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 12:26:25 +0200, Ivan Stankovic wrote: > which needs git tags to work. However, my local clone doesn't have > any tags and git describe fails with > > fatal: cannot describe '6dc3b67fb796278954d8440a1ab1950b988146f7' I can't work out *how* to make a clone without any tags.

Re: gEDA-user: Progress with unified build

2009-08-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:10:18 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: > From a developer and user of git or cvs sources point of view, I'd > *much* rather run configure once instead of 9 (!) times. Also parallel > make jobs can work with the unified system which can really help with > development speed.

Re: gEDA-user: Progress with unified build

2009-08-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 12:26:25 +0200, Ivan Stankovic wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 07:12:58AM +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: >> Does your configure output have something like these three lines? >> >> checking for git... git &g

Re: gEDA-user: Progress with unified build

2009-08-06 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 06 August 2009 23:37:15 Ivan Stankovic wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 11:09:41PM +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > gEDA can be successfully compiled and installed in one pass, with none > > of the, "Install X, *then* you can compile Y," messing about that we &

gEDA-user: Progress with unified build

2009-08-06 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi everybody, As some of you are aware, one of the blocking items [1] for gEDA/gaf 1.5.3 (and eventually 1.6.0) is a unified build system, with the whole of the suite distributed in a single tarball. This will have benefits for developers and packagers. In the 'build-system' branch [2] of my per

Re: gEDA-user: PCB antenna - short circuit

2009-08-03 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 03 August 2009 20:37:22 Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Monday 03 August 2009 20:31:45 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:47:32 -0500, John Griessen wrote: > > > To let gsch2pcb run and update an open instance of PCB would be a nice > > > feature...

Re: gEDA-user: PCB antenna - short circuit

2009-08-03 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 03 August 2009 20:31:45 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:47:32 -0500, John Griessen wrote: > > To let gsch2pcb run and update an open instance of PCB would be a nice > > feature... > > Like xgsch2pcb does? Shh, kmk, it's got a *GUI* and uses *IPC*. You'll scare him away w

Re: gEDA-user: contents of struct NETLIST

2009-08-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 03 August 2009 02:45:05 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:51:39 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > The NETLIST type that gnetlist uses looks like this: > > > > /- > > typedef struct st_netlist NETLIST; > > > > struct st_netlist { > > int nlid; > > ch

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg (why live CD wouldn't work)

2009-08-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 03 August 2009 00:35:02 Bob Paddock wrote: > > Seriously? Do they try to use the same tools for all tasks. > > The ones that are good with EMACS will. Especially with the new Butterfly > command in 23.1. :-) It sounds like my next project should be to re-implement gschem etc as ELisp p

Re: gEDA-user: comments in gedalib/src/attrib.c

2009-07-30 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 21:55:58 Kai-Martin wrote: > Finally, I managed to come to terms with git :-) > > Attached is a patch for comments in gaf/gedalib/src/attrib.c > It corrects were some typos and copy paste accidents in comments. Thanks -- committed. Peter --

Re: gEDA-user: gerbv-2.3.0 released

2009-07-30 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:53:21 +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > Once I have more time, I will propose "Electronics" as an official > menu to the freedesktop guys. It would be nice to have support from > other distributions as well during this process. Electronics-menu is a > default on Fedora for ab

Re: gEDA-user: wiki devel-tips

2009-07-29 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:46:46 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:45:23 + (UTC), Kai-Martin Knaak > wrote: >> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:04:30 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: >> >>> The section "devel-tips" in the wiki may need a

Re: gEDA-user: wiki devel-tips

2009-07-29 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:45:23 + (UTC), Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:04:30 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > >> The section "devel-tips" in the wiki may need a bit of care and feeding. >> http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:devel-tips >> >> There is a detailed HOWTO do branc

Re: gEDA-user: howto produce a diff-files

2009-07-27 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:47:10 + (UTC), Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > [snip] > > As you can see, I am still clueless how git works. Can you give a > concise explanation what staging means in this context? Is there > a git HOWTO for dummies somewhere? Yes, and they're all linked from http://geda.

Re: gEDA-user: Gschem/Custom Symbol/Path

2009-07-26 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 27 July 2009 04:08:58 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:54:42 -0500, Mike Hansen wrote: > > I have a system-gafrc. Can I put it in there? > > You better don't. The system-gafrc will be overwritten on the next update. There is a directory where you can put custom gafrc fil

Re: gEDA-user: comments in gaf source

2009-07-26 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Sunday 26 July 2009 20:33:20 Gareth Edwards wrote: > 2009/7/26 Kai-Martin Knaak : > > Unfortunately, this section is still waiting for volunteers > > to be filled with actual advice. > > While attempting to understand gattrib's internals, I've expanded the > doxygen commentary for the app a fair

Re: gEDA-user: comments in gaf source

2009-07-26 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Sunday 26 July 2009 18:45:38 Ethan Swint wrote: > On 07/26/2009 01:38 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:26:35 -0400, Ethan Swint wrote: > >> Are the Doxygen docs for gaf published on the web/internet? > > > > There is a section in the devel-tips of the wiki: > > http://geda.

gEDA-user: Broken mail clients

2009-07-22 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi everybody, Recently there has been an increasing number of people who customarily post to the list with "geda-u...@seul.org" in both To: and Cc: fields. This results in my getting two copies of every e-mail you send, and is starting to get irritating. Could you please ensure that your mail cl

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-22 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:07:54 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: >> The main case I'd like to catch is unintentionally duplicated symbols. If >> >> both, refdes and all pins are identical, it is safe to assume an error. >> > > Nak. In my case, I use one symbol to refer to al

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist/Scheme tutorial

2009-07-21 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 18:45:55 John Doty wrote: > Here, as promised, is the text of the first installment of my > tutorial. Text only, I still gotta figure out the wiki. Comments are > welcome. I would teach people the: (define (add1 x) (+ x 1)) Syntax for function definition before introduc

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] gschem: Add name completion to attribute edit dialog

2009-07-20 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 21 March 2009 14:16:24 Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz wrote: > Replace deprecated GtkCombo with GtkComboEntryBox. > Make sure to use GtkEntryCompletion features compatible with GTK 2.8. > > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kosciuszkiewicz Committed. Thanks for the patch, and sorry it took so long!

Re: gEDA-user: add Logo to silkscreen in pcb, exactly how to insert the EPS?

2009-07-20 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 20 July 2009 17:21:36 S. Aguinaga wrote: > What is the latest consensus on "how to add eps logo to silkscreen"? Use the `pstoedit' tool, IIRC. Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre signature.asc Description: This is a di

Re: gEDA-user: g_list_sort() or local mergesort?

2009-07-19 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 20 July 2009 00:19:44 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > For my gnetlist hacking I need to sort the netlist according to refdes. > There are two options: > > a) use the function g_list_sort() provided by glib > This would involve routines to convert NETLIST to GList and back. Please do this. The

Re: gEDA-user: Toporouter Changes

2009-07-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:16:04 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Anthony Blake wrote: >> >> I would prefer to implement this sort of functionality with topological >> directives or constraints, and avoid geometric constraints if possible. >> > > Kind of like providing the circuit-board equivalent of a

gEDA-user: Re: Needs create a language (english ,spanish...) specific list?

2009-07-04 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:55:38 +0200, Rubén Gómez Antolí wrote: > > What you think about? > Sounds good. However, I think it would be a good idea to check that there is sufficient interest from speakers of that language before setting up each list. Peter

Re: gEDA-user: gschem trutype git repository

2009-07-03 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:17:26 -0400, Mark wrote: > Peter C - > > I've lost the post that points to your git repository for gschem trutype > fonts. I went to the list archives and checked back three months and > still > can't find it. Would you mind reposting it? He's away on a field trip at th

Re: gEDA-user: deprecating gschem2pcb and PCBboard backend (DanMcMahill)

2009-07-01 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:15:17 -0600, KURT PETERS wrote: > > I'm not only for it; I think it should be DELETED, instead of just > deprecated. Agreed! Peter P.S. Kurt, please don't top post. :P -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre _

Re: gEDA-user: pcb wishes

2009-06-23 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 08:01:22 Duncan Drennan wrote: > I'm sure we could all raise list of features that we need/want PCB to > have, but isn't the implied agreement that the next step in the > development cycle is to complete the work laid out in the Linux Fund > PCB project? > > http://www.linux

Re: gEDA-user: autorouter fixes and enhancements (Harry Eaton)

2009-06-22 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 22 June 2009 23:12:45 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:23:20 +1200, Anthony Blake wrote: > > :toporouter(). There is a 'h' parameter which makes it re-evaluate the > > > > netordering after a number of routes, > > Works! :-)) > > I noticed, that the router did not introduc

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for PCB fab recommendations

2009-06-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 19 June 2009 03:52:10 Michael Sokolov wrote: > * SnPb finish - this one is an absolute requirement for ideological / > philosophical reasons, RoHS crap is *not* acceptable. In the nicest possible way, WTF? > * Both plated and unplated drill. Some parts have plastic mounting > eleme

Re: gEDA-user: Display issues: grid & lines missing in gschem

2009-06-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 18 June 2009 20:53:59 Mark Rages wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 15:46 -0400, Ethan Swint wrote: > >> OK - everything got installed to /root, instead of /usr/local... How > >>to change that in the build process? I'm looking.

Re: gEDA-user: Investigating gEDA for commercial use

2009-06-13 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 13 June 2009 14:00:52 Chris Smith wrote: > Hi all, > > We are looking for a new set of EDA tools at work and have investigated > both CadStar and Altium so far. I have asked my boss to consider gEDA, > on the basis that it probably does 95% of what we need it to and it may > be cheaper

Re: gEDA-user: resize gschem symbol

2009-06-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 00:29:04 Mark Rages wrote: > my reinvented wheel: > > http://vivara.net/software/gschem-resize.py > > of course, I think it's more readable. You owe me a new brain. I broke the last one trying to read that. :-/ Peter -- Peter Brett Camb

gEDA-user: gmk_sym

2009-06-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi everybody, Please let me know by private e-mail if you currently use the gmk_sym tool. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Brett Cambridge University Engineering Department signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___

Re: gEDA-user: More flexible rotated text for 1.6.0, font-sizes etc..

2009-06-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:58:01 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > A. Match postscript point size - so a 10pt font prints / views as a 10pt > font. (When printed on a title-block which matches the size of the paper > - printed with no margin). > > This takes the definition of 1pt as 1/72 of an inch, and

Re: gEDA-user: gschem's new pretty menus

2009-06-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Sunday 07 June 2009 18:56:04 John P. Doty wrote: > Here's a screenshot on Ubuntu Jaunty with LANG=ja_JP.utf8. > Looks like we have many untranslated strings in Japanese... Peter -- Peter Brett Cambridge University Engineering Department signature.asc Description

Re: gEDA-user: PCB build changes

2009-06-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 01:25:10 Steven Michalske wrote: > > You could push it to the repo as a branch so that other people still > > only > > had one public repo to deal with. Then after we tag and release from > > "master" you can merge it down. > > just don't push your stacked git managed por

Re: gEDA-user: Still compiling 1.5.2

2009-05-21 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 21 May 2009 23:11:57 KURT PETERS wrote: > Peter, > You would not BELIEVE how ungodly ugly that "(display-color-map > '((background "#ff")))" in my gschemrc makes gschem's screen. It's the > grid lines that are doing it in, but the text is unreadable. and, frankly, > the screen is

Re: gEDA-user: suppress log file for gschem

2009-05-21 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 21 May 2009 23:06:14 Mark Rages wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > On Thursday 21 May 2009 20:57:04 Mark Rages wrote: > >> It's a huge task to recompile all of gEDA for this bugfix. Is there a > >> way I can

Re: gEDA-user: suppress log file for gschem

2009-05-21 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 21 May 2009 20:57:04 Mark Rages wrote: > It's a huge task to recompile all of gEDA for this bugfix. Is there a > way I can just switch off logging entirely? If someone else can verify that your proposed change is valid, then we can put a patch in git.

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib: Adding new attribute columns

2009-05-19 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 11:36:39 Andy Fierman wrote: > Bug report posted . ID: 2793743 > > :) > > BTW the version I'm using pops up various messages about things not > being implemented yet such as opening a file, finding or searching for > attributes. Is that what you'd expect from this version

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-newlib vs newlib

2009-05-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 18 May 2009 11:13:49 Dan McMahill wrote: > Peter TB Brett wrote: > > On Monday 18 May 2009 02:52:01 Dan McMahill wrote: > >> KURT PETERS wrote: > >>>I was looking at my new pcb directory and noticed both a pcb-newlib > >>>and a newlib

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-newlib vs newlib

2009-05-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 18 May 2009 02:52:01 Dan McMahill wrote: > KURT PETERS wrote: > >I was looking at my new pcb directory and noticed both a pcb-newlib > >and a newlib directory. > >What's the difference? > >Also, this > >http://www.geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_tips > >doesn't say any

Re: gEDA-user: Still compiling 1.5.2

2009-05-17 Thread Peter TB Brett
> I, indeed, had to go into system-gschemrc to make changes to the background > color. [code] > my new one has this in it with no problems: > (image-color "disabled") ; for monochromoe PNG output > (output-color "disabled") ; for monochrome postscript output > (print-command "kprinter")

Re: gEDA-user: Signal Source Setup for Electric Guitar?

2009-05-12 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 23:11:24 Michael B Allen wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Andy Fierman > > wrote: > > As Anthony has already asked, where is a copy of the schematic? I > > followed your link but haven't found one from there yet. > > Not sure why that didn't work but here's a screen

Re: gEDA-user: solder jumpers

2009-05-03 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Sunday 03 May 2009 07:13:13 DJ Delorie wrote: > Had another idea for a solder jumper: > > http://www.delorie.com/pcb/solderjumpers.html I like this and hearby request that you update the fileformat to support it as an element. :P Peter -- Peter Brett Cambridge Un

Re: gEDA-user: aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1

2009-04-14 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:39:35 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install gEDA from git repository on Debian GNU/Linux > Lenny (32 bit). > > I have installed the packages: > git-core git-doc gitk stgit git-email git-completion > autoconf automake libtool gettext intltool cvs flex gr

Re: gEDA-user: FT232R

2009-04-13 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 22:57:02 DJ Delorie wrote: > > The FTDI USB UARTs have noise immunity issues. They tend to lock up > > after running for an hour or so. And worst of all they only reset > > themselves when the USB cable has been physically removed. It's a > > well known problem. I wou

Re: gEDA-user: Bug in wiki concerning gEDA-attributes

2009-04-13 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 09 April 2009 12:24:38 Stefan Salewski wrote: > So the attributes stuff should be in the gafrc files -- gschemrc > mentioned in the wiki is wrong? Some of the attributes stuff was moved into the gafrc file in order to better match the way it is implemented internally. Must have been

Re: gEDA-user: What commit for the log redirection?

2009-04-13 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 10 April 2009 23:33:58 Yamazaki R2 wrote: > One other nagging thing, is there anyway to disable the backup file > creation (schname.sch~) on gschem? My working directories are > currently cluttered with logs and ~ files and it's getting quite > annoying doing an ls and seeing over half t

Re: gEDA-user: Surface mounted circuits in hobby projects

2009-04-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 02 April 2009 08:32:09 Peter Carlsson wrote: > Hello! > > I have just started my first hobby project with gEDA and > noticed that some circuits I need is only available as > surface mounted circuits. > > How do you handle this problem? Or is it a problem? It's not necessarily a problem

Re: gEDA-user: DRC-GUI

2009-04-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 02 April 2009 03:34:28 Peter Clifton wrote: > More eye-candy.. again, a real screen-shot, not a mockup. > > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/drc_for_real2.png > > Still not production ready though.. whenever I play with GL, I seem to > have a knack of making enough errors in my cod

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] gschem: Add name completion to attribute edit dialog

2009-03-22 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 21 March 2009 14:16:24 Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz wrote: > Replace deprecated GtkCombo with GtkComboEntryBox. > Make sure to use GtkEntryCompletion features compatible with GTK 2.8. > > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kosciuszkiewicz Looks good to me! Thanks for the patch. If no-one has any o

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol style recommendations

2009-03-19 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 19 March 2009 22:28:14 Eric Brombaugh wrote: > Isn't it nice to have the option to do either? Absolutely! -- Peter Brett Electronic Systems Engineer Integral Informatics Ltd signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. __

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol style recommendations

2009-03-19 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 19 March 2009 21:58:59 Josh Jordan wrote: > I prefer to use actual pinouts in my schematics for two reasons: It helps > you with chip placement because naturally you will tend to place symbols > and lines to get the fewest line crossings.  Going to layout after you have > already decide

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol style recommendations

2009-03-19 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 19 March 2009 15:29:02 maillist.pe...@home.se wrote: > This seems very handy when drawing the schematics but I wonder if > there are any problems with this method? > > As I understand, as long as you define what chip type it is it will > be resolved and correctly translated once you ge

Re: gEDA-user: geda 1.4.3: make doxygen ?

2009-03-19 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 19 March 2009 09:44:18 Peter Clifton wrote: > Ah, looking at it, gschem.dox doesn't make it into the tarball. I've not > got time to check it out right now, and verify if any other required > files are missing, but perhaps you could file a bug report on > sourceforge. This will help mak

Re: gEDA-user: gsch2pcb use pcb library preferences patch

2009-03-13 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 13 March 2009 04:44:58 Josh Jordan wrote: > Thanks for the comments.  I have made suggested changes.  I have tried > using g_strsplit and found it to takes more lines of code and uses more > memory.  I prefer the changes to be walking-style instead of g_strsplit due > to fewer lines, less

Re: gEDA-user: pinseq - pinnumber?

2009-03-11 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 11 March 2009 17:35:21 John Doty wrote: > And all of the crazy IEC417 symbols (whose pins aren't real anyway). Now that I have my own set of nicely-matching lightweight symbols, the only syms I really use from the gEDA symbols package are the IEC417 ones... really useful for block

Re: gEDA-user: pcb- no library dialog window on startup

2009-03-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 09 March 2009 21:51:10 Josh Jordan wrote: > The problem is when pcb builds the libraries on startup, the LibraryChanged > function is called.  This function only calls the show-library-window (sp?) > function when it should first check to see if library_window is visible..  > I had made a

Re: gEDA-user: Do we need --enable-deprecated for guile 1 .8.5 to compile libgeda 1.4.3?

2009-03-01 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 28 February 2009 17:14:58 Stefan Salewski wrote: > Do we need --enable-deprecated for guile 1.8.5 to compile libgeda 1.4.3? Yes. Soon (tm) we will drop Guile 1.6 support. Peter -- Peter Brett Electronic Systems Engineer Integral Informatics

Re: gEDA-user: pcb printing with action script

2009-02-27 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 27 February 2009 16:16:07 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:57:21 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:55:59 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > >> Now I can finally produce the prints I need without tedious GUI > >> interaction. > > I'd like to share the

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist backend for xml-bom generation

2009-02-25 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 19:22:37 Mike Crowe wrote: >(define xmlsearchandreplace >  (lambda (s1 sstring rstring spos) >        (let ((fpos1 (string-contains s1 sstring spos))) >                (if fpos1   >                (begin >                        (xmlsearchandreplace (string-insert s1

Re: gEDA-user: PCB and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

2009-02-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 01:37:13 DJ Delorie wrote: > Pleas read README.cvs I still think that removing AM_MAINTAINER_MODE from gaf's autoconf was a very good decision. Peter -- Peter Brett Electronic Systems Engineer Integral Informatics Ltd signature.a

Re: gEDA-user: git compilation problem: undefined reference to `gtk_selection_data_get_data'

2009-01-30 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 30 January 2009 11:50:15 Sascha Silbe wrote: > x_clipboard.o: In function `x_clipboard_get': > /home/sascha.silbe/src/geda/gaf/gschem/src/x_clipboard.c:199: undefined > reference to `gtk_selection_data_get_data' > > I cannot find that symbol in any library (in /usr/lib). Does gEDA now >

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA "portability problems"

2009-01-28 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 22:56:09 Dave McGuire wrote: > > and versions of GLib/GTK+ since 2.4 are available for the vast > > majority of consumer operating systems and CPU architectures. > > AFAIK, it works > > on *at least* Solaris, Windows, Linux and BSD, on x86, x86-64, PPC > > and ARM. > >

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA "portability problems"

2009-01-28 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 19:51:48 Dave McGuire wrote: >And actually, though, the portability problems that are giving me > heartburn lately are with gEDA, not PCB proper. GTK (and its thirty > or so dependencies) is a big pain in the ass for anyone who is not > running the absolute latest

Re: gEDA-user: GTK RANT

2009-01-25 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 26 January 2009 05:38:25 Eric Brombaugh wrote: > Getting rid of the 'f s' sequence in gschem (or at least providing an > alternative) would go a long way toward alleviating some of my mis- > keys. The number of times I've turned my PCB layouts green as a result > of using the gschem file

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