Re: gEDA-user: gschem guile scripting

2010-10-31 Thread Maciej Pijanka
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Oliver King-Smith wrote: Maciej, There is a small development script that allows you to drop into a guile shell on the gEDA website. The shell auto completes so you can see a list of all available commands. You can also try things live. I found this very

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 00:44 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: Evan Foss wrote: I may have missed it but has anyone suggested the brlcad format. It might be better than freecad in that it has export/import from a lot of other formats already written. It might be worse in that its user

Re: gEDA-user: gschem guile scripting

2010-10-31 Thread John Doty
On Oct 31, 2010, at 5:07 AM, Maciej Pijanka wrote: I already tried this before posting, it don't work even for gnetlist producing following output: Backtrace: In current input: 1: 0* (ptest output.net) unnamed port:1:1: In expression (ptest output.net): unnamed port:1:1: Unbound

Re: gEDA-user: gschem guile scripting

2010-10-31 Thread Maciej Pijanka
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, John Doty wrote: On Oct 31, 2010, at 5:07 AM, Maciej Pijanka wrote: I already tried this before posting, it don't work even for gnetlist producing following output: Backtrace: In current input: 1: 0* (ptest output.net) unnamed port:1:1: In

Re: gEDA-user: gschem guile scripting

2010-10-31 Thread John Doty
On Oct 31, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Maciej Pijanka wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, John Doty wrote: On Oct 31, 2010, at 5:07 AM, Maciej Pijanka wrote: I already tried this before posting, it don't work even for gnetlist producing following output: Backtrace: In current input: 1: 0*

Re: gEDA-user: gschem guile scripting

2010-10-31 Thread DJ Delorie
Why, i wanted to create some scheme script to be invoked from gschem to show/hide pinnumbers on currently opened schematics, why i would use gnetlist for that? For the same reason that you wouldn't want to use pliers as a hammer. gschem has very little knowledge of what the graphics

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread kai-martin knaak
Stefan Salewski wrote: The user base of brlCAD is marginal and will probably shrink even more, as more intuitive open source CAD applications will become a viable alternative. That may be true, but I am not really happy with the wording. Some kids may be tempted to do something like

Re: gEDA-user: gschem guile scripting

2010-10-31 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 10:41 -0600, John Doty wrote: For the same reason that you wouldn't want to use pliers as a hammer. gschem has very little knowledge of what the graphics *mean*. This is a very good thing, a key feature of gEDA's design, one that distinguishes it from all the

Re: gEDA-user: gschem guile scripting

2010-10-31 Thread Maciej Pijanka
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, John Doty wrote: On Oct 31, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Maciej Pijanka wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, John Doty wrote: On Oct 31, 2010, at 5:07 AM, Maciej Pijanka wrote: I already tried this before posting, it don't work even for gnetlist producing following

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi all, -Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of kai-martin knaak Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:36 PM To: geda-u...@seul.org Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request Stefan Salewski wrote:

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread DJ Delorie
That said, it is certainly true that geda looses potential users because of the command line thing. The demo I did at Devcon didn't use the command line at all. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread Evan Foss
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote: Evan Foss wrote: I may have missed it but has anyone suggested the brlcad format. It might be better than freecad in that it has export/import from a lot of other formats already written. It might be worse in that

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread kai-martin knaak
Bert Timmerman wrote: Avoiding the command line won't help you on the gschem -- simulation work flow. It ain't necessarily so. (cite from a song I'll sing on Wednesday :) The current simulation work flow of geda sucks big time. Absence of a GUI way is only a minor itch when compared with the

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 19:09 +0100, Bert Timmerman wrote: Avoiding the command line won't help you on the gschem -- simulation work flow. Can you please explain why we will always need the command line for simulation in gEDA? (I have newer found the time doing simulations...) Loosing

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread kai-martin knaak
Evan Foss wrote: Following that logic gEDA will be made extinct by kicad any day now. I tried kicad for a little pet project a few months ago. There were quite a few usability issues. It didn't feel like wow, it was that easy!. On the contrary, I frequently wished they had done things

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 21:05 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: I fully agree. There will not be much real benefit from Windows/Ubuntu-type of users. Oi.. lets not forget that at least one of the gEDA developers (me) is an Ubuntu user. There is no shame in wanting your tools to just work! /me goes

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread kai-martin knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: /me goes back to writing kernel profiling driver for intel GPUs to squeeze more framerate out of PCB+GL. Side note: I just purchased a used ATI Radeon HD 4670 that free3d.org announces as the fastest card with open sourced drivers. I'll keep you posted on my mileage.

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:30:46 + Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 21:05 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: I fully agree. There will not be much real benefit from Windows/Ubuntu-type of users. Oi.. lets not forget that at least one of the gEDA developers (me) is an

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 19:30 +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 21:05 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: I fully agree. There will not be much real benefit from Windows/Ubuntu-type of users. Oi.. lets not forget that at least one of the gEDA developers (me) is an Ubuntu user.

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 20:49 +0100, kai-martin knaak wrote: Side note: I just purchased a used ATI Radeon HD 4670 that free3d.org announces as the fastest card with open sourced drivers. I'll keep you posted on my mileage. I hope it will work fine for you -- some months ago you only

Re: gEDA-user: gschem guile scripting

2010-10-31 Thread John Doty
On Oct 31, 2010, at 11:00 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: Why, i wanted to create some scheme script to be invoked from gschem to show/hide pinnumbers on currently opened schematics, why i would use gnetlist for that? For the same reason that you wouldn't want to use pliers as a hammer. gschem

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 19:30 +, Peter Clifton wrote: /me goes back to writing kernel profiling driver for intel GPUs to squeeze more framerate out of PCB+GL. Indeed I wonder why framerate is critical -- is this only for rotating the board in 3D view? For other editing operation most of

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 31.10.2010 um 21:05 schrieb Stefan Salewski: There will not be much real benefit from Windows/Ubuntu-type of users. If they do not understand a line like cp xxx yyy -- can we really hope that these people will at some time do serious coding? Then, there are many people which know cp

Re: gEDA-user: gschem guile scripting

2010-10-31 Thread DJ Delorie
Worrying about pin number visibility is not focusing on the work, but focusing on minor aspects of the presentation. That, of course, is the strength of fritterware. If fritterware is the best way to give the user an environment in which they can be productive, then fritterware is what we'll

Re: gEDA-user: gschem guile scripting

2010-10-31 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 14:15 -0600, John Doty wrote: Worrying about pin number visibility is not focusing on the work, but focusing on minor aspects of the presentation. That, of course, is the strength of fritterware. Presentation may be the work, if you are writing a textbook. Indeed I

Re: gEDA-user: gschem guile scripting

2010-10-31 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi, -Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Salewski Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 10:50 PM To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: Re: gEDA-user: gschem guile scripting On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 14:15

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 20:49 +0100, kai-martin knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: /me goes back to writing kernel profiling driver for intel GPUs to squeeze more framerate out of PCB+GL. Side note: I just purchased a used ATI Radeon HD 4670 that free3d.org announces as the fastest card

gEDA-user: Any outstanding gaf patches?

2010-10-31 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi folks, I've just briefly trawled through the patch bug trackers for gaf, and committed a bunch of sensible-looking patches. If you've got any patches that haven't yet been dealt with, and you think should have been, please: (1) Make sure they've been submitted to the SF.net patch tracker:

Re: gEDA-user: Any outstanding gaf patches?

2010-10-31 Thread DJ Delorie
P.S. Not PCB patches. ;-) I'm going to start trolling through those separately... ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread kai-martin knaak
Stefan Salewski wrote: I hope it will work fine for you -- some months ago you only advertised nvidia... Yes, there was a shift. A year ago, people in de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware discouraged me from purchasing an ATI card. Now, it is more like both should work, but free ATI drivers can do

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 22:29 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 19:30 +, Peter Clifton wrote: /me goes back to writing kernel profiling driver for intel GPUs to squeeze more framerate out of PCB+GL. Indeed I wonder why framerate is critical -- is this only for

Re: gEDA-user: gschem guile scripting

2010-10-31 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 22:12 +0100, Bert Timmerman wrote: FYI according to ohloh.net: gEDA approx. 31 person years effort (http://www.ohloh.net/p/gEDA) Pcb approx. 32 person years effort (http://www.ohloh.net/p/pcb) The difference in LOC is not much larger: gEDA approx. 126k LOC

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 21:43 +, Peter Clifton wrote: The update code is sadly pretty dumb. What I wanted to ensure was fast, would be panning / zooming, which involved full frame redraws. I want to optimise that first, _then we can make the editing small areas case lightning fast.

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread Armin Faltl
Hm, does this mean you can implement a library, but you mustn't use material from the standard to document it? DJ Delorie wrote: STEP is an ISO standard, which likely means you have to buy the standard itself, but you can implement it freely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_10303

Re: gEDA-user: gschem guile scripting

2010-10-31 Thread bobo
On Sunday 31 October 2010, John Doty wrote: I am extremely grateful that gEDA is not fritterware, but concerned that it might become fritterware. to fritter (third-person singular simple present fritters, present participle frittering, simple past and past participle frittered) 1. To occupy

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA interview with DJ at DevCon

2010-10-31 Thread Bob Paddock
Perhaps, but its been on my To Do list for a long time to do a wxWidgets port of PCB. Why are so few people interested in FLTK? My reason is that I had to chose a tool kit that I could use for my day job making commercial software. I don't like FLTK's license in that context. While a

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 00:19 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: Unfortunately there are not much examples, at least not for clever buffering with cairo. No, although gerbv actually seems to do a good job in this regard. IIRC, just redrawing edges which need repainting after a pan. Zoom can be fudged

Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

2010-10-31 Thread John Doty
On Oct 31, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Markus Hitter wrote: Then, there are many people which know cp xxx yyy, but prefer to avoid it anyways. You want to catch these. You don't want to dumb down the toolkit. Now, if somebody wants to write a fat, sweet integrated tool using the gEDA file formats,