Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-18 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 08:51:10AM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: Surely you can type cvs commit? Or cvs ci for the lazy, like me. -- Joshua D. Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jdboyd.net/ http://www.joshuaboyd.org/ ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-16 Thread Karel Kulhavy
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 08:51:10AM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: If I won't be able to submit through the old mechanism I won't probably submit anymore. gedasymbols.org are just too complicated for me. Once it's set up, it's far *simpler* to contribute through gedasymbols. What I did is

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-16 Thread John Griessen
Karel Kulhavy wrote: Surely you can type cvs commit? Besides, Karel, you've never even asked for an account on gedasymbols, so how do you know what the process is like? You should at least *try* it before you tell everyone how bad it is. From the fact that it is an account I know there

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-16 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 16 December 2006 17:47, John Griessen wrote: Karel Kulhavy wrote: Surely you can type cvs commit? Besides, Karel, you've never even asked for an account on gedasymbols, so how do you know what the process is like? You should at least *try* it before you tell everyone how bad it

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-16 Thread Dan McMahill
John Griessen wrote: Karel Kulhavy wrote: Surely you can type cvs commit? Besides, Karel, you've never even asked for an account on gedasymbols, so how do you know what the process is like? You should at least *try* it before you tell everyone how bad it is. From the fact that it is an

subversion usage (was: Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission)

2006-12-16 Thread Andy Peters
On Dec 15, 2006, at 3:56 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: There seems to be a way to deal with just sub directories of a tree, after you have the whole tree. If you move that subdir to a new place, it still functions as a svn working copy of that much of the tree, and you could then delete the rest with

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-16 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: something goes in your ~/.cvspass file not the CVS dirs. If you do a 'cvs logout' then it should log you out and you'll need to login again. I have 32 passwords in my ~/.cvspass file. Some of them have been there for over a decade. Most are just anonymous. I can't

Re: subversion usage (was: Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission)

2006-12-16 Thread DJ Delorie
Which is as it should be, because you update to the specific state of the repository as of whatever revision you choose. I agree, but in my case, when I'm hunting for when a particular bug was introduced in gcc (for example), I don't want it to keep putting the ada, c++, fortran, java,

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-16 Thread DJ Delorie
I can't remember... Does it stay logged in even after a user account logout? I don't know. I've never used the logout command. A reboot? Yes. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-15 Thread John Luciani
On 12/14/06, Bob Paddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use IPC-style names the alphanumeric sort works fairly well. If you add a mfg/mfg_pn suffix you can get a better sort. What happens when the company is bought by an other company? Happens all to often. You write a Perl script to

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-15 Thread Andy Peters
On Dec 15, 2006, at 2:21 AM, Karel Kulhavy wrote: If I won't be able to submit through the old mechanism I won't probably submit anymore. gedasymbols.org are just too complicated for me. Subscription, password management, directories, CVS - takes too much time. gEDA should dump cvs and

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-15 Thread DJ Delorie
gEDA should dump cvs and switch to subversion ... Note that gEDA, PCB, and gedasymbols.org each have their own - independent - repositories. The PCB admins have at least talked about the difference between cvs and svn. There are ups and downs to either choice. Svn, for example, doesn't have

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-15 Thread Lares Moreau
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:31:39 -0700 Andy Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Cut- gEDA should dump cvs and switch to subversion ... ;) -a fan_flames(lares) svn++ -Lares pgp7tmHXF18Z8.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-15 Thread Andy Peters
On Dec 15, 2006, at 12:31 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: gEDA should dump cvs and switch to subversion ... Note that gEDA, PCB, and gedasymbols.org each have their own - independent - repositories. The PCB admins have at least talked about the difference between cvs and svn. There are ups and

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-15 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: Svn, for example, doesn't have the concept of modules - you either get the whole tree, or none of it. OTOH, cvs won't let you check out a branch as of a specific date. Svn also needs twice the local disk space. I'm wondering how git and svn compare... nirvana-wise I've

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-15 Thread DJ Delorie
Actually, that's not true ... but let's leave that for a different thread and a different list. Ok, but I do want to mention that the gcc and binutils/gdb/newlib/cygwin repositories are pondering this same question, and I have a lot of info from those discussions. It's not a cut-n-dried

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-15 Thread Andy Peters
On Dec 15, 2006, at 2:20 PM, John Griessen wrote: DJ Delorie wrote: Svn, for example, doesn't have the concept of modules - you either get the whole tree, or none of it. OTOH, cvs won't let you check out a branch as of a specific date. Svn also needs twice the local disk space. I'm

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-15 Thread DJ Delorie
There seems to be a way to deal with just sub directories of a tree, after you have the whole tree. If you move that subdir to a new place, it still functions as a svn working copy of that much of the tree, and you could then delete the rest with no impact on the repository. But if you do

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-14 Thread Tomaz Solc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I would think that if the Symbol Submission was integrated within the GUI, that perhaps the Symbol library may be larger then it is now? Just a thought… I have another idea. How about a GUI that allows you to search for a symbol in the

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-14 Thread DJ Delorie
I think I can hack something like this in a day or two with gtk-perl and http::request. Let me know if you need a custom cgi on gedasymbols.org ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-14 Thread John Griessen
Tomaz Solc wrote: How about a GUI that allows you to search for a symbol in the gedasymbols.org database? I think I can hack something like this in a day or two with gtk-perl and http::request. A way to look at a sorted list of all that's on gedasymbols could be helpful. What's a good

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Griessen wrote: Should we create some standard category names, a style guideline of naming, to sort symbols with on gedasymbols .org? John G Not that I've been good about getting my symbols up on gedasymbols.org, but I've been using the IPC 7351 naming conventions that John Luciani

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-14 Thread John Griessen
Peter Clifton wrote: I've also been wondering about the possibilities of plugging back-ends in to communicate with your favorite supplier's online catalog, and link to datasheets, pricing etc. (Again, all blue skies speculation, so The recognizing of useful data from the mishmash of

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-14 Thread John Luciani
On 12/14/06, John Griessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A way to look at a sorted list of all that's on gedasymbols could be helpful. What's a good thing to sort on? Alphanumeric is all I can think would work as is. Should we create some standard category names, a style guideline of naming, to

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-14 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 15 December 2006 01:09, Bob Paddock wrote: If you use IPC-style names the alphanumeric sort works fairly well. If you add a mfg/mfg_pn suffix you can get a better sort. What happens when the company is bought by an other company? Happens all to often. Symlinks? ;) Peter --