Re: gEDA-user: why some skip KiCAD and gEDA

2011-09-10 Thread gedau
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:03:14AM +0530, Abhijit Kshirsagar wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 04:42, Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote: Am 10.09.2011 um 13:35 schrieb Stefan Salewski: A lot of documentation can be bad. Ha! Now that's exactly the right answer to somebody offering

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down?

2011-08-31 Thread gedau
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:56:27AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Just FYI, turns out the place that hosts my secondary DNS was *also* out for the hurricane. Not much I can do about that - my paranoia only goes so far ;-) I could host sec dns for the site in central Europe if that helps.

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop f?r gEDA

2011-08-06 Thread gedau
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:35:38PM -0700, yamazakir2 wrote: Do you guys use your linux box for general desktop usage or only EDA? I ask because I have tried many times to make the switch to linux for general desktop usage but can't get over the inconvenience of it. I have a linux box

Re: gEDA-user: Reinventing the wheel

2011-05-18 Thread gedau
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:24:53PM +0100, Thomas Oldbury wrote: Is there a Python api for gEDA? I once made a GPMI plugin for PCB. Unfortunately it contains only a small set of interface libraries so what can be done was limited. I've written an SVG exporter prototype in tcl, an interactive

Re: gEDA-user: zview/ngscope

2011-04-17 Thread gedau
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 04:15:16PM -0400, rickman wrote: On 4/4/2011 11:44 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: A.Burinskiy wrote: I did not saw satisfactory analog viewer for ngspice. Could you please send me a link or project name? Over the years several waveform projects have been tossed around

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

2011-04-15 Thread gedau
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:35:28PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Another note - when uploading the EXE, please be sure to upload ALL the sources used to build it - yes, all the .tar.gz for all the libraries built. Really. Kai and I can't make the binary available without also making all those

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. Last

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 to google

Re: gEDA-user: default pcb stackup change?

2011-04-11 Thread gedau
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:58:51AM +0530, Abhijit Kshirsagar wrote: 1. Agree! I'd find this much more intuitive and easy to work with. The layers option will be a big help... +1 I also like the ieda of dropping component/solder side, replacing it with whatever else that suggests one side and

Re: gEDA-user: Time tracking

2011-02-02 Thread gedau
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 07:26:12PM -0500, Darryl Gibson wrote: Hello Group, I'm curious what folks are using for time tracking and/or billing? Spreadsheets, software? We have a custom software called wt (as working time). It is designed by programmers for programmers, to minimize

Re: gEDA-user: .sch primitive ordering [was: Collaborative Development of Boards]

2011-01-17 Thread gedau
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:26:58AM +, Peter TB Brett wrote: On Monday 17 Jan 2011 08:58:18 John Doty wrote: On Jan 17, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Due to the way the gschem editing model works, and particularly the undo system, stuff tends to get shifted to the end of the

Re: gEDA-user: Collaborative Development of Boards

2011-01-16 Thread gedau
Hello Markus, On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:11:31PM +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: Hi all, having run an open source electronics project with the intention of collaborative development for a few months now, the experience is less than inspiring. So I'm looking for opinions on how to do better.

Re: gEDA-user: Collaborative Development of Boards

2011-01-16 Thread gedau
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 08:22:02AM +0100, Stephan Boettcher wrote: ge...@igor2.repo.hu writes: If you edit one object, that won't ever move other objects around by side effect. VCS systems I know depend on this feature. I think PCB already provides this feature, keeping order of

Re: gEDA-user: Seeing pin numbers in PCB

2010-12-30 Thread gedau
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:48:00PM -0800, Oliver King-Smith wrote: Being lazy I am importing footprints other folks kindly made for pcb. Unfortunately, I am not very trusting, so I want to check they are correct. I can measure the size of stuff using gerbv (there may be a better

Re: gEDA-user: scripting for pcb

2010-12-30 Thread gedau
Hi Karl, On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:29:21PM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote: Tibor: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 08:51:19PM +0100, Stephan Boettcher wrote: ... And when that's the case, a clean C-API that can be exported to Guile, Python, Ruby, C++, Fortran, ... just dreaming. [the above is about

Re: gEDA-user: scripting (was Resistor values???)

2010-12-29 Thread gedau
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 08:51:19PM +0100, Stephan Boettcher wrote: John Doty j...@noqsi.com writes: On Dec 29, 2010, at 6:23 AM, Stephan Boettcher wrote: I can imagine that it's not a lot, since this is really a classical case for said design pattern. The real difficulty here is

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values???

2010-12-25 Thread gedau
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 09:23:17PM -0500, Mark wrote: snip So, because I use several methods, a single one-size-fits-all library is just not going to work for me. I *could* make use of a library of heavy symbols but I still need the lightweight symbols, too. If I was forced to choose

Re: gEDA-user: Dev list [was: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB]

2010-12-09 Thread gedau
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:27:31AM +, Peter TB Brett wrote: snip If I remember correctly, a major factor in the closure of the gEDA-dev list was that the signal to noise ratio became very low. There were several people, few of whom *ever* submitted patches, loudly and rudely telling

Re: gEDA-user: very backward time step?

2010-09-23 Thread gedau
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 08:52:26AM -0400, al davis wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2010, Rub?n G?mez Antol? wrote: Gnucap 2009.12 is so stable, why not released? (In several days, I think even ask at debian maintainer to include snapshots, at least, in experimental branch of Debian.)

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-14 Thread gedau
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:26:28AM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:08:25PM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: XML is far too heavy, agreed, and it's signal-to-noise ratio is abysmal. I think that using a Lisp (or Lispy-looking) format would be extensible, easy to parse, and

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread gedau
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 01:16:01AM -0400, Rick Collins wrote: snip But I suppose it is better to re-invent the wheel. There is no reason to try to foster any sort of compatibility in file formats between all the different CAD tools. There are always conversion programs to be written,

Re: gEDA-user: Ricks email client

2010-08-24 Thread gedau
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:40:25PM -0600, John Doty wrote: On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:23 PM, kai-martin knaak wrote: If there still is no change, it must be gmane munging header and encoding. Still in base64. Raw text of your message reads:

gEDA-user: broken part

2010-06-11 Thread gedau
Hi all, sorry for the offtopic; we have a broken part which supposed to be a transducer in a board driving a tiny CRT. The sticker on the part says Lucius Baer TYP: VM 102-L (http://igor2.repo.hu/tmp/VM102.jpg). Has anyone met this part or does anyone have an idea for a substitute? Regards,

Re: gEDA-user: OT: Bike Alarms

2010-05-13 Thread gedau
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:41:19AM -0500, John Griessen wrote: David SMITH wrote: John Griessen wrote: David C. Kerber wrote: If you've got a carbon frame, you could drop it into the seat tube, where it would never be seen, and therefore never removed by a thief... This really does sound

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA programming

2010-04-23 Thread gedau
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:00:20PM +0200, Miguel S?nchez de Le?n Peque wrote: Hi all, I'm a student interested in contributing to gEDA and learn some C ;-). The biggest problem I find any time I start coding is how should I write this?. You're always talking about deprecated code,

gEDA-user: [ig...@igor2.repo.hu: Re: Net of Selected Common Pins Enroutes Shortest Path Through All Intervening Pins]

2010-01-05 Thread gedau
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 10:08:15PM -0500, Stan Katz wrote: I use gEDA for small projects. One, and two sided boards only. It's been fine up until now. I now have a transceiver chip with some pins, a number of which I need to run to pin 1 on an IDE header. No matter how I draw