Re: gEDA-user: Reinventing the wheel

2011-05-21 Thread Steve Meier
Must it be round? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

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

2011-05-21 Thread Tom Pope
Feel free to post a tarball or other installer, so that the users can replace geda's library with yours.  John Luciani did that on his site, you can do it on gedasymbols if you want.  Make it a copy of the library you actually use, doesn't require much work, just make it available to others.

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

2011-05-21 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Tom Pope wrote: Is there any chance of tarring up -all- of the the symbols and footprints on gedasymbols.org? You can do a wholesale anonymous cvs download. While this is technically not a tar ball, it serves the same purpose to create copy of the repository on the local hard disk. As an

Re: gEDA-user: Broken TO92 footprint

2011-05-21 Thread Stephen Trier
Cullen, I suspect the TO-92A/B/C notation comes from some layout package, and that is why other packages use other terminology. It is not in the original TO-92 spec, which is available free (registration required) from JEDEC at URL:

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

2011-05-21 Thread Karl Hammar
Ales: Kai-Martin Knaak, [snip] No size fits all. That does not preclude improvement over the current situation. DJ and I are asking you to improve the current situation by creating, distributing, and maintaining a better default symbol library than the one that is currently shipped

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

2011-05-21 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Karl Hammar wrote: I already have checked out cvs.gedasymbols.org, how do I integrate it withing gschem and pcb? Let the config files point to where your preferred symbols and footprints are stored. Unfortunately, gschem does not descend into subdirectories. So you have to give each and

gEDA-user: Meta (was: Reinventing the wheel)

2011-05-21 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Stephen Ecob wrote: There will always be a place for both heavy and light. People's work flows vary too much to limit gEDA to just one. How come, this meme of limiting appears in about every discussion on future developments? Even in those, that are explicitly about broadening the scope of

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

2011-05-21 Thread DJ Delorie
I am not sure, where the import function of PCB can be configured. Last time I checked, it seemed to use the paths given in $HOME/.pcb/preferences It uses PCB's internal paths, yes, so whatever works in the Window-Library dialog works for import. But schematic import did not play nice

Re: gEDA-user: Meta (was: Reinventing the wheel)

2011-05-21 Thread DJ Delorie
How come, this meme of limiting appears in about every discussion on future developments? Even in those, that are explicitly about broadening the scope of the tools. Because it's a key requirement that we allow a variety of flows to operate. I think we all agree that this is important,

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

2011-05-21 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
DJ Delorie wrote: IIRC there are a few proposals and/or active solutions in play: * Standard library is light, users heavyify them (we need a better verb for that ;) into a project-specific (or even site-global) heavy symbol library. * Standard library is heavy, users either use

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

2011-05-21 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Cullen Newsom wrote: Couldn't you consider maintaining some backwards-compatibility by having the metadata file simply contain references to the symbol files (plus other garbage, spice, kitchen sinks, etc), and footprint files? That should only require a minimal effort on the part of gSchem

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

2011-05-21 Thread Bob Paddock
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak k...@lilalaser.de wrote: My proposal to tackle many of the library related issues is the notion of packages. These would be data structures that can contain all information relevant to an entity us humans like to build electronics from.

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

2011-05-21 Thread Ales Hvezda
Kai-Martin Knaak, [snip] My proposal to tackle many of the library related issues is the notion of packages. Great, thank you for posting these details. You seem to have an approach on how to fix the library issues. It would be great if you could now implement this approach as a prototype

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

2011-05-21 Thread DJ Delorie
These would be data structures that can contain all information relevant to an entity us humans like to build electronics from. I don't think this conflicts with any of the other ideas we've proposed. It's almost like each component would be a micro-library of its own. Note, the plural.

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

2011-05-21 Thread DJ Delorie
It would be great if you could now implement this approach as a prototype for everybody to evaluate. I think we're still in the what do we want to do phase :-) Some time this weekend, I'll re-read the thread and see which ideas we seem to have come to a consensus on, and see what if any parts

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

2011-05-21 Thread Ales Hvezda
[snip] I think we're still in the what do we want to do phase :-) We have been in the what do we want to do phase for many many years. Talk is cheap. -Ales less talk, more code ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

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

2011-05-21 Thread DJ Delorie
We have been in the what do we want to do phase for many many years. Talk is cheap. Agreed, but we still need to get everyone on the same page, or at least in the same book, so we can actually *do* it this time, and stop rehashing the same old problems. Talk is cheap, but buy-in is very

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

2011-05-21 Thread DJ Delorie
Talk is cheap, but buy-in is very expensive. And, of course, I expect those who are contributing to the talk part to buy-in to actually *doing* their part of it, too. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

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

2011-05-21 Thread Larry Doolittle
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 09:19:21AM -0400, Bob Paddock wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak k...@lilalaser.de wrote: My proposal to tackle many of the library related issues is the notion of packages. These would be data structures that can contain all information

gEDA-user: Shitty chip vendor companies

2011-05-21 Thread Michael Sokolov
Larry Doolittle ldool...@recycle.lbl.gov wrote: I have done that, too, but only rarely. It's a royal PITA. Do those guys *cough*Marvell*cough* want us to use their parts, or not? The real problem occurs when a device with the functionality you need is made *only* by the shithead companies

Re: gEDA-user: Broken TO92 footprint

2011-05-21 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
The discussion about reinventing the wheel reminded me: The TO92 footprint included with PCB does not work with the schematic importer therein. Try to reference it and the importer complains about missing pins, because it uses numbered pins instead of the B-C-E lettering used in

Re: gEDA-user: Broken TO92 footprint

2011-05-21 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Sat, 21 May 2011 20:42:48 +0200 Wojciech Kazubski w...@o2.pl wrote: Vanessa Ezekowitz vanessaezekow...@gmail.com [... posted an equivalent replacement footprint ...] TO-92 transistors use at least four pinouts. The footprint name shall indicate this if it has E, B, C instead of pin

gEDA-user: gEDA mailing lists change

2011-05-21 Thread Ales Hvezda
Hi folks, Effectively immediately, all gEDA mailing lists except geda-dev are now moderated. As I do not want to moderate every single post, I will do some sort of a whitelist scheme and I'll find a way of getting a group of people moderation privileges. Sorry for the sudden change. Feel free

Re: gEDA-user: [snip] chip vendor companies

2011-05-21 Thread Ales Hvezda
Hi All, [snip entire message] I've dealt with this offline and made some changes so it doesn't happen again. Sorry for the interruption, -Ales ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

gEDA-user: gEDA wiki in read-only mode

2011-05-21 Thread Ales Hvezda
Hi, I'm doing some maintenance on the gEDA wiki this weekend, so it is currently in read-only mode. Let me know if you desperately need to make an edit. :) Thanks, -Ales ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

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

2011-05-21 Thread John Griessen
On 05/20/2011 04:09 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: hmmm... think about how a simplehttp:// changed the way we share information across the Internet. Think of how Facebook changed the way people manage their social lives. Are we prepared to put the effort into making something of*that* scale, for EDA?

Re: gEDA-user: Broken TO92 footprint

2011-05-21 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: You mean, like THIS? (see attachment) Ok, this is _all_ permutations of certain three letter combos. May be a little bit over the top for general distribution. Many combinations do not correspond to any component in the real world. Having them in the lib just invites

Re: gEDA-user: Broken TO92 footprint

2011-05-21 Thread DJ Delorie
In the context of packages, the package might indicate, which slot to use. As with all attributes, the user could override per instance. I had a similar thought, but wanted to separate slotting from mapping. Choosing a specific transistor (Fairchild 2N3904 TO92, for example) triggered a

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

2011-05-21 Thread DJ Delorie
I like adding the meta-data to a separate file, even if it associated with a footprint first. For example: SOIC-8.fp along with SOIC-8.fp.meta, which contains attribs symbolname=FET_dual_11234.sym footprintname=SOIC-8.fp could be created first, and a symbol for FET_dual_11234.sym defined

Re: gEDA-user: Broken TO92 footprint

2011-05-21 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Sat, 21 May 2011 23:23:29 +0200 Kai-Martin Knaak k...@lilalaser.de wrote: Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: You mean, like THIS? (see attachment) Ok, this is _all_ permutations of certain three letter combos. May be a little bit over the top for general distribution. Many combinations do not

gEDA-user: chip data directories in a library ( library packages )

2011-05-21 Thread John Griessen
On 05/21/2011 08:09 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: The notion of packages can be seen as a means to isolate dependencies. Pins in symbols must match pins in footprints. Simulation models are specific to components. Packages provide a way to keep comments, notes and all kinds of meta data attached.

Re: gEDA-user: chip data directories in a library ( library packages )

2011-05-21 Thread DJ Delorie
I like the idea of creating a library group containing all info related to a manufactured part or part range. Library group? Or just a library? (not picking on the name, just wondering what you think the difference is, or why such a difference might be needed) Do we need to be able to group

gEDA-user: data directories in a library ( library packages )

2011-05-21 Thread John Griessen
On 05/22/2011 12:33 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: I like the idea of creating a library group containing all info related to a manufactured part or part range. Library group? Or just a library? (not picking on the name, just wondering what you think the difference is, or why such a difference might