Re: gEDA-user: possible collaborators on PCB, gschem [Kicad (or another FOSS tool)]

2011-07-27 Thread Peter TB Brett
Larry Doolittle ldool...@recycle.lbl.gov writes: John - On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:07:51PM -0500, John Griessen wrote: Larry Doolittle is going to be there in person. What can we tell them to get them interested in gEDA more than KiCAD? Not push and shove, unless someone (not me) goes

Re: gEDA-user: dir = g_dir_open() should be freed by g_dir_close(dir)

2011-07-26 Thread Peter TB Brett
k...@aspodata.se (Karl Hammar) writes: [snip] Thanks Karl. I've committed both your patches. In future, please help me get your patches integrated more quickly efficiently by following the instructions in the gEDA `HACKING' file. If for some reason you cannot use Launchpad to submit

Re: gEDA-user: SCM_ASSERT() with false SCM_ARGx

2011-07-26 Thread Peter TB Brett
k...@aspodata.se (Karl Hammar) writes: From guile documentation: -- Macro: void SCM_ASSERT (int TEST, SCM OBJ, unsigned int POSITION, const char *SUBR) ... -- Macro: int SCM_ARG1 ... -- Macro: int SCM_ARG7 One of the above values can be used for POSITION to indicate

Re: gEDA-user: Crash in gschem

2011-06-29 Thread Peter TB Brett
Eivind Kvedalen eivin...@infeline.org writes: Using head (dad94bf12c2ef120fae7a45a0020107815b84ef0), gschem crashes when double-clicking on an object. Fixed. Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre

Re: gEDA-user: Crash when rotating whole board

2011-06-26 Thread Peter TB Brett
Thomas Oldbury toldb...@gmail.com writes: Bump. Not a major problem but would be nice to see fixed. Anyone know what could cause this? Just a reminder that if you want to make sure that problems that you've reported don't get lost in the list archives, it's always a good idea to file a bug

Re: gEDA-user: Draft documentation for Scheme API

2011-06-25 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 24 June 2011 22:44:29 Peter TB Brett wrote: Hi folks, I've now written the documentation for the Scheme API so far (in TexInfo, simply because that was the quickest way to get it done and looking nice). I've put an HTML version on the web temporarily here: http://peter

gEDA-user: Draft documentation for Scheme API

2011-06-24 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi folks, I've now written the documentation for the Scheme API so far (in TexInfo, simply because that was the quickest way to get it done and looking nice). I've put an HTML version on the web temporarily here: http://peter-b.co.uk/geda/geda-scheme/ That URL will change soon(ish), and I'll

Re: gEDA-user: gschem saving symbols

2011-06-20 Thread Peter TB Brett
Josh Jordan outerspacema...@yahoo.com writes: I could implement a save-symbol-as capability.  Can anyone familiar with gschem code outline a 'right' way to this?  Should I add another option to Hierarchy down modified symbol and change the other to down original symbol?  Or would it be better

Re: gEDA-user: gschem saving symbols

2011-06-20 Thread Peter TB Brett
Josh Jordan outerspacema...@yahoo.com writes: The script opens a dialog to save the symbol and it also loads the symbol on its own page.  I think we could skip the file chooser and make this function open the modified symbol in the Hierarchy menu in a Down Symbol Instance option.  Then you

Re: gEDA-user: web version of gschem/pcb

2011-06-20 Thread Peter TB Brett
Josh Jordan outerspacema...@yahoo.com writes: It would make development easier if you only support a set of standards instead of different build environments that overall run on a minority of the systems out there. Sorry Josh, but that's just not true. There's only one desktop platform on

Re: gEDA-user: import schematics with local footprints

2011-06-08 Thread Peter TB Brett
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@lilalaser.de writes: Ethan Swint wrote: I've got the line (component-library-search /../../footprints) in my gafrc file. Does that set a priority? I just double checked. This setting does not seem to affect the choice of footprints in any way. Correct. The term

Re: gEDA-user: multiple attributes with the same value

2011-06-08 Thread Peter TB Brett
Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de writes: Do attributes have to be unique within a symbol? Currently, gschem/gnetlist is a bit indifferent. This has been discussed before: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.geda.user/34557/focus=34677 Upshot: current behaviour is inconsistent.

gEDA-user: Blog post: Porting gEDA to Guile 2.0, and future plans

2011-06-05 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi all, I just published a blog post in which I discuss porting to Guile 2, and ask for suggestions about what part of gEDA I should hack on next. It includes a description of the various work-in-progress branches that I've currently got on the back burner, which might be of interest.

gEDA-user: gEDA with Guile 2.0

2011-06-03 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi folks, I've just checked in some changes that enable gEDA to compile and run with Guile 2.0. Please report any issues. Currently, the only known problem is that the `drc2' gnetlist backend is broken. Regards, Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA with Guile 2.0

2011-06-03 Thread Peter TB Brett
Currently, the only known problem is that the `drc2' gnetlist backend is broken. This is now fixed, and there are no known issues with using the gEDA main development branch with Guile 2.0. Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey

gEDA-user: Unsubscribing from the list

2011-05-17 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi folks, It's no longer a worthwhile use of my time to monitor this list, due to the excessively low signal-to-noise ratio. I'm therefore unsubscribing from it for the time being. I will continue to monitor the gEDA-bug and gEDA-dev mailing lists. If you wish to get help with using gEDA,

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: simple FreeType fonts implementation -- update?

2011-05-13 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 13 May 2011 17:34:21 Colin D Bennett wrote: Note that it's been mentioned that PCB's internal text representation should switch from ASCII-7 to UTF-8, and I agree. That should be quite simple and painless, right? Fully backward-compatible. *cringe* Those sound like famous last

Re: gEDA-user: minipack-result -- gschem

2011-05-12 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 12 May 2011 17:06:01 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: [snip] Now I get a decent gschem GUI :-) Great! [snip] What would be the HOME in windows. Or alternatively, how would I give a full windows path that includes backslashes and the drive letter? Just like that, I think (you may need

Re: gEDA-user: minipack-result -- gschem

2011-05-11 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wed, 11 May 2011 18:31:35 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote: Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: -minipack-gschem-with-winXP-in-Virtualbox-- C:\Programme\result\bingschem.exe ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path: ERROR: Unable to find file

Re: gEDA-user: minipack-result -- gschem

2011-05-11 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wed, 11 May 2011 19:08:07 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote: Peter TB Brett wrote: boot-9.scm is part of Guile (it's the master Scheme script needed to initialise the interpreter). Guile may not be installed correctly. Try running 'guile' and see if you get

Re: gEDA-user: drc2 crash

2011-02-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
- Original message - I am attempting to run the drc2 check with gnetlist.  I have checked each  individual schematic separately, and drc2 works fine.  But when I tried to run  them altogether I am getting the following crash: Stack overflows in gnetlist should never occur in 1.7.0

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering minute smt

2011-01-27 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 27 January 2011 15:47:37 Rob Butts wrote: Holy miniature footprints Batman!!! I'm trying to solder a 10 pin MSOP chip to a home made circuit board. These are incredibly difficult to solder without solder mask, in my experience. Whenever I've had a design that called for them,

Re: gEDA-user: going multi core

2011-01-26 Thread Peter TB Brett
- Original message - just one such core. Can I expect a spectacular speed-up of gschem and pcb? Or are they throttled by the graphic card anyway? gschem is a single-threaded application. It runs on one core, no matter how many you have. So no, don't expect a big speed up.

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 25 January 2011 21:52:52 Terrance Hutchinson wrote: I would like to help develop the Windows port. Your wiki said that if I was interested, I should post to this list. I have been working as a computer engineer for a little over 2 years at a company specializing storage oriented

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-25 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 25 January 2011 22:09:10 Chris Malton wrote: I too have done some work in so much as getting a full gEDA suite working under Cygwin. MinGW is probably a better option though. There are two main reasons MinGW is better: 1) Cygwin is slow (not sure why, but on a previous

Re: gEDA-user: gsymcheck - show line numbers?

2011-01-25 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 25 January 2011 22:32:21 william estrada wrote: Is there a way to make gsymcheck show the line numbers with the error messages?? Not at the moment, sorry. Peter [ Technical info: the libgeda symbol file parser does not preserve object origin information

gEDA-user: gsch2pcb bug with '-' in filenames fixed

2011-01-24 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi folks, I just committed a fix for the bug in gsch2pcb that breaks things when footprint names contain '-'. Please test and let me know if you encounter any problems. Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre

Re: gEDA-user: auto-uref increments by twos

2011-01-23 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Sunday 23 January 2011 05:59:29 jb...@frii.com wrote: As Mithat Konar posted on Sept 6, 2010, I too am now having auto-uref number my components starting with 2 and incrementing by 2. I've just upgraded to 1.6.1.20100214 and it works beautifully (I had been using a significantly older

Re: gEDA-user: speed of the gschem GUI

2011-01-22 Thread Peter TB Brett
- Original message - A good strategy is always to have a bounding box for each element, and to draw only elements when their bounding box overlaps with the visible part on screen. So not rely on cairo's clipping. We already do this. Peter -- Peter Brett

Re: gEDA-user: Strange gsch2pcb error

2011-01-21 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 21 Jan 2011 15:16:45 Peter Clifton wrote: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 22:39 -0500, Ben Gamari wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:07:23 +, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Error sounded like it might be a classic: Don't put - in footprint names Ahhh. That would explain it.

Re: gEDA-user: git based wiki

2011-01-21 Thread Peter TB Brett
If we're talking about changing things, here's my totally unreasonable and unrealistic documentation system wishlist. - Markup: should look as much like a plain text document as possible, so that it's easy to read and edit the documentation without having to continually process it to

Re: gEDA-user: Strange gsch2pcb error

2011-01-20 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 20 January 2011 23:59:24 Ben Gamari wrote: [1] gito...@goldnerlab.physics.umass.edu:beagle-daq What's the password, please? Thanks, Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre signature.asc Description:

Re: gEDA-user: Strange gsch2pcb error

2011-01-20 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi Ben, Works for me. See attached log. Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre -*- mode: compilation; default-directory: /home/peter/Projects/geda/beagle-daq/ -*- Compilation started at Fri Jan 21 00:30:26 make

Re: gEDA-user: Strange gsch2pcb error

2011-01-20 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 21 January 2011 00:32:29 Peter TB Brett wrote: Hi Ben, Works for me. See attached log. Now that I've installed PCB properly, I can reproduce the bug. It's *probably* a gEDA bug, so please file a bug report so that I remember to look at it after I've had some sleep. https

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

2011-01-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 01:00:32 John Doty wrote: Example: Create square with solid background. Create smaller circle with hashed background, set to a different colour. Move circle on top of square. Obviously, if z-order is not preserved through save and load, this will be rendered

Re: gEDA-user: Collaborative Development of Boards

2011-01-17 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 17 January 2011 08:01:53 ge...@igor2.repo.hu wrote: 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

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: How to set the margin for printing?

2011-01-17 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 17 January 2011 02:07:32 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Hi. The print dialog of gschem offers Extents with margins by default. This margin is larger than necessary or my printer. But no margin is too little. Is there a way to set the size of the margin? I couldn't find margin in

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

2011-01-17 Thread Peter TB Brett
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 file when edited. This is something that I've made a few

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

2011-01-17 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 17 Jan 2011 11:07:16 John Doty wrote: At each level in this tree the order of the branches does not matter. No. It does matter; the ordering indicates the draw order of primitives in any viewer or graphics exporter. Arguably, it shouldn't, but if not, the file format needs to

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

2011-01-17 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 17 Jan 2011 12:17:50 Karl Hammar wrote: Tibor: ... Maybe I oversimplify it, but I still suggesting having UUIDs. Long random numbers, like 256 bits, stored in hex. Whenever a new object appears, generate a new one. Whenever an object is transformed, keep the UUID. When saving,

Re: gEDA-user: multiple attributes

2011-01-17 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 17 Jan 2011 08:10:24 Stephan Boettcher wrote: al davis ad...@freeelectron.net writes: How about prefixing simulation attributes with a dot. No, please, use a proper namespace prefix, like spice- verilog- sim- spice: verilog: sim: Backend namespaces, use namespaces, with

Re: gEDA-user: FYI [Fwd: [Balloon] Balloon 4]

2011-01-17 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 17 January 2011 18:30:35 Steve Wiseman wrote: Or should I fire up gEDA on something smaller and less visible first? Anyone want to hold my hand while I do it? Smaller and less visible, first, I would say, if only so that you can get a feel for whether gEDA/pcb lacks features

Re: gEDA-user: Rant about Make Inv Text Vis

2011-01-16 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Sunday 16 January 2011 17:22:06 Peter Clifton wrote: On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 08:03 -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:47:19 + Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Are there any use-cases for invisible text which is not an attribute? Since it might exist already

Re: gEDA-user: Rant about Make Inv Text Vis

2011-01-15 Thread Peter TB Brett
Consider it napalmed. Napalmed ain't enough - I want that option *nuked* (from orbit yet).   It's the only way to be sure.                   Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___

Re: gEDA-user: Rant about Make Inv Text Vis

2011-01-14 Thread Peter TB Brett
- Original message - What is the point of the command Make Inv Text Vis in gschem, other than aggravating me. Good question. I'm not aware of a use-case for it either. At the very least, it should be undo-able. Please file a bug report. Peter -- Peter Brett

Re: gEDA-user: Bug in [ctrl-a]

2011-01-14 Thread Peter TB Brett
- Original message - Hi. In git head, there is a new feature to select all with [ctrl-a]. Under specific circumstances, visible attributes move at double pace compared to the rest of the symbol. To reproduce: That sounds like a bug in moving to me. Did you file bug report?

Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5)

2011-01-12 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 12 January 2011 02:46:40 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: • gsch2pcb wart: The net of input/output symbols is evaluated from its refdes. Consequently, the restrictions to refdeses apply: No uncapitalized suffix, no hyphen, etc. Proposal: evaluate the net from dedicated attributes.

Re: gEDA-user: Bugs, warts and feature requests (5)

2011-01-11 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 12 January 2011 00:03:50 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: • geda documentation: There is no wiki page for gsch2pcb. Best bet is http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:faq-gsch2pcb I just added `man gsch2pcb', by the way. But not to the wiki. BTW, copying the manpages into the wiki is a bad

Re: gEDA-user: Browsing the source code...

2011-01-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
- Original message - I just noticed on the gEDA Launchpad page (https://code.launchpad.net/geda) that it says: You can browse the source code for the development focus branch or get a copy of the branch using the command:       bzr branch lp:geda Shouldn't that be     git clone

Re: gEDA-user: Accessing the repository using anonymous CVS

2011-01-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Sunday 09 January 2011 17:51:48 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: There used to be a CVS mirror of the git repo. The wiki still points to it but notes, it is currently offline: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:scm?#committing_patches_from_other_contribu tors Is this access supposed to be working

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Sunday 09 January 2011 19:07:37 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: For full triage you have to be a member of the bug team (geda-bugs, or pcb-bugs). Else, you get no edit buttons next to the importance button. I'd expect, that this is configurable and the status can also be

Re: gEDA-user: Launchpad: pcb next-bug-release

2011-01-08 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 08 January 2011 10:16:48 Bert Timmerman wrote: Hi all, On https://launchpad.net/pcb/+milestone/next-bug-release I see some bugs marked with the status fix-released. IMO these should aleady be included in the latest release of pcb (20100929) and not in the list for the

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-08 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 08 January 2011 19:33:40 Gareth Edwards wrote: On 8 January 2011 19:28, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 19:16 +, Gareth Edwards wrote: Does it make sense to move (other peoples) Wishlist items to Confirmed, or just leave them as New? Just thinking

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-08 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 08 January 2011 21:26:59 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Gareth Edwards wrote: Think it's worthwhile me trying to capture the process on the wiki somewhere IMHO, bug reporting is worth a dedicated page in the wiki. I just started one at:

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-08 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 08 January 2011 22:44:48 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Gareth Edwards wrote: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:bug_triage_guide Nice. Would you object against a merge with Howto report bugs? I don't think that one is really needed -- reporting bugs and triaging bugs are different jobs.

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-08 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 08 January 2011 23:31:43 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter TB Brett wrote: Nice. Would you object against a merge with Howto report bugs? I don't think that one is really needed -- reporting bugs and triaging bugs are different jobs. Sure, but I'd like to: 1) not spread

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 07 January 2011 10:14:19 Peter Clifton wrote: Grab git HEAD of whichever package the bug is in (if you don't have it already), and try to confirm whether the bug is still present or not. Bug present: New - Confirmed Bug absent: Make a comment - set bug to Invalid,

Re: gEDA-user: Bug triage

2011-01-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 07 January 2011 20:55:31 Colin D Bennett wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 10:22:53 + Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: Please use Fix released only if the fix has been in a released version (the latest release was 1.6.1). Otherwise, use Fix committed. Is there any

Re: gEDA-user: origin/master ... origin/stable-1.6 ?

2011-01-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 08 January 2011 02:02:38 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Hi Peter B, Peter C. Just noted that git fetch of git://git.gpleda.org/gaf reports two branches. origin/master and origin/stable-1.6 . What is the significance of these? Where should I look for the brave new features that get

gEDA-user: SourceForge bug trackers frozen

2011-01-06 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi folks, In case you're wondering where the gEDA/gaf bug trackers at SourceForge.net have disappeared to, they've been shut down so that no new changes occur while Peter C gets the bugs imported to their new home at Launchpad.net. The conversion has now been completed, and we're just waiting

Re: gEDA-user: Launchpad up running [was: SourceForge bug trackers frozen]

2011-01-06 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 06 January 2011 16:38:59 Peter TB Brett wrote: Hi folks, In case you're wondering where the gEDA/gaf bug trackers at SourceForge.net have disappeared to, they've been shut down so that no new changes occur while Peter C gets the bugs imported to their new home at Launchpad.net

gEDA-user: [PATCH] gsch2pcb: Add `outline' layer to default PCB template.

2011-01-05 Thread Peter TB Brett
: Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:29:39 + Subject: [PATCH] gsch2pcb: Add `outline' layer to default PCB template. Adds the `outline' (board physical outline) layer to the default PCB template used by `gsch2pcb' when initially creating a .pcb file for a design. Requested

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH 1/2] gnetlist: Add access to all attributes from components with multiple symbol instances.

2011-01-05 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 16:32:48 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter TB Brett wrote: Well, no, because you will now get a BIG FAT WARNING every time you run gnetlist. You mean, I will receive this big fat warning for every symbol I attach more than one comment to? Why not try it and find

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH 1/2] gnetlist: Add access to all attributes from components with multiple symbol instances.

2011-01-05 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 17:49:50 John Doty wrote: WARNING: Trying to rename something twice: X2/GND and X2/GND are both a src and dest name This warning is okay if you have multiple levels of hierarchy! I've never known this warning to actually indicate a problem with a design.

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH 1/2] gnetlist: Add access to all attributes from components with multiple symbol instances.

2011-01-05 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 18:38:04 John Doty wrote: They're not especially bad. In that project make clean; make generates 2074 lines of chatter, only about 1/3 of them from gschem and gnetlist. The worst offender is pdflatex. You can see how a warning could easily be lost. That

gEDA-user: Conflicting attributes (was: [PATCH 1/2] gnetlist: Add access to all attributes ...)

2011-01-05 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 19:04:37 John Doty wrote: On Jan 5, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011 18:38:04 John Doty wrote: They're not especially bad. In that project make clean; make generates 2074 lines of chatter, only about 1/3 of them from gschem

Re: gEDA-user: gschem usability: expand the component tree after filtering

2011-01-04 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 08:59:26 Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz wrote: 2011/1/4 kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de: +1 Every click that can be avoided for common tasks adds to the productivity. I hope, this patch will be accepted. Thanks to cooperation with Peter B it is already

Re: gEDA-user: DRC Problem

2011-01-04 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 16:24:26 Dan Quist wrote: Hello, I have a problem with the DRC check. In the included file, is Drc_maker.sh which when run will result in a stack overflow: Hi Dan, This is a known issue with the 1.6.x versions of the DRC2 backend. It is fixed in the git version

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH 1/2] gnetlist: Add access to all attributes from components with multiple symbol instances.

2011-01-04 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 17:45:29 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Patrick Bernaud wrote: This commit introduces 'gnetlist:get-all-package-attributes' to retrieve every first attribute value for package consisting of multiple symbol instances. So this resolves one of the more annoying warts

Re: gEDA-user: Shutting down SourceForge trackers for migration to Launchpad

2011-01-04 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 18:07:21 Peter Clifton wrote: I have discussed the plans for migration quite openly, and have had input and/or feedback from most developers on the two projects. If moving over at some point during the next couple of days causes anyone a problem, please let me know

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol question – suggestions?

2011-01-04 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 20:42:28 Stephan Boettcher wrote: Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com writes: I created this symbol, it's the 74-series version of the 4066 (4 bilateral switches), called 744066 (as in 74LV4066, for example): Symbol /Symbol The documentation of

Re: gEDA-user: Does Google do not like us any more?

2011-01-04 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 22:55:39 Stefan Salewski wrote: From time to time I have problems finding my own geda postings again. Just tried a google search for site:archives.seul.org Boettcher huge mess Gives no results for me -- should give

Re: gEDA-user: multiple attributes (was: [Patches] GTK Recent-file-manager)

2011-01-04 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 00:42:07 John Doty wrote: On Jan 4, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Matthew Wilkins wrote: What are typical use cases for having multiple same-named attributes in a symbol? A slotted symbol generally needs multiple slotdef attributes. A hierarchical symbol will have

Re: gEDA-user: [Patches] GTK Recent-file-manager

2011-01-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
Can you set up a git repository of pcb with your patches applied? (The way Peter Clifton makes his GL-enabled version of pcb available to potential testers) This patch is on my list of things to look at when I get home in a couple of hours -- it seems like a good idea in principle, so

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH 1/3] Quick testcase for patch #3071482.

2011-01-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Sunday 02 January 2011 17:19:23 Patrick Bernaud wrote: [snip] 2 files changed, 169 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/testcase.sch create mode 100644 tests/testcase.scm diff --git a/tests/testcase.sch b/tests/testcase.sch [snip] Hi Patrick, Where exactly is

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Wikibook ?

2010-12-24 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 24 December 2010 10:12:42 timecop wrote: But why not a real book, that is written in LaTeX? Because you just ruled out the remaining 1% of people who even wanted to help with writing any kinda documentation. Wrong. I much prefer writing LaTeX to writing wiki syntax. Also,

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values…

2010-12-24 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 24 December 2010 10:27:20 Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2010-12-24 00:53:38 skrev Stefan Salewski m...@ssalewski.de: On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 00:38 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 00:31 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Value: → Enter ”390k”. Does it look nice?

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Test import of gEDA + PCB bugs on Launchpad

2010-12-22 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 22 Dec 2010 11:40:39 Peter Clifton wrote: After much hard work, manual tweaking, and even a patch to Launchpad (rolling out onto production servers soon)... I've got something for people to PLAY WITH!: https://bugs.staging.launchpad.net/pcb

Re: gEDA-user: Beginner question about the default title block

2010-12-22 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 19:17:14 Johnny Rosenberg wrote: When I open a new page, a ”title block” is all I see, and there I can read things like ”DRAWN BY”, ”TITLE”, ”REVISION” and so on. Am I supposed to fill that in by using the Text tool ...? Yes! That's what I do, anyway. Other

Re: gEDA-user: Duplicate messages and mailing list To: address

2010-12-20 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 20 December 2010 18:38:55 Colin D Bennett wrote: I'm getting all the replies to Kai-Martin Knaak's messages twice. It looks like it has something to do with K-M's messages having a To: field of geda-u...@seul.org while everyone else's has geda-user@moria.seul.org, causing the

Re: gEDA-user: Guile/gschem problem

2010-12-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 18 December 2010 20:32:11 Eduardo Costa wrote: Hi guys, I'm trying to compile the suite, but while it does so, I get this infamous error when trying to start gschem: The suite currently only works with Guile 1.8.x. The last time I saw this error, it was when I tried compiling

Re: gEDA-user: Guile/gschem problem

2010-12-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 18 December 2010 20:43:41 Eduardo Costa wrote: Thanks Peter for your quick answer!, No. Mine's a custom made distro (sort of `linux from scratch') I made years ago and have been updating by hand as it takes place, although I doubt that's the problem. I always run into troubles

Re: gEDA-user: get-package-attribute sometimes returns ? - ID: 3114991

2010-12-17 Thread Peter TB Brett
In any case, it seems to me that the user should get an error message (from spice-sdb) in this case, as an explicit ? here means that the user has neither set the attribute to something useful nor deleted it as irrelevant. So what you are saying is that you think we should get rid of the WTF?

Re: gEDA-user: get-package-attribute sometimes returns ? - ID: 3114991

2010-12-16 Thread Peter TB Brett
To fix it in a uniform way I think we need to standardise what we use as a place holder for an attribute. Sould we explicitly put unknown  or ?? Unfortunitly gschem won't let you put a null string. Hi Clif, Since at the moment gnetlist internally uses the string unknown to indicate a

Re: gEDA-user: FUNDING

2010-12-16 Thread Peter TB Brett
Before this deteriorates into a my software is better than your software contest, can I suggest that we try to keep things on-topic? An excellent suggestion. Peter :-( -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre

Re: gEDA-user: get-package-attribute sometimes returns ? - ID: 3114991

2010-12-16 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 16 December 2010 20:43:23 c...@eugeneweb.com wrote: Ok so we toss current patch in 3114991. Done. Should I make a new one that replaces all the ? in symbols / blocks with unknown? That sounds like a good idea, actually. If spice-sdb should choke on any remaining ? it runs

Re: gEDA-user: TRACKERS [was: Re: gEDA-dev: Dev list [was: Random thoughts onthe future interface of PCB]]

2010-12-10 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 09 December 2010 21:06:06 Peter Clifton wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 21:22 +0100, Bert Timmerman wrote: ... gEDA and friends can even keep the SF tracker system ... Actually, I have been looking quite seriously at the possibility of ditching SF trackers and moving all the

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

2010-12-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 09 Dec 2010 09:35:53 Stephan Boettcher wrote: DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com writes: If you want to become a PCB committer, the process starts by writing good patches, reviewing other people's patches, and being involved in design discussions. When it gets to the point where the

Re: gEDA-user: Small patch to aid use of lib dmalloc

2010-12-06 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 06 Dec 2010 13:31:09 Peter Clifton wrote: I did loose some respect for the dmalloc author(s) when I noticed on their page they can't spell Microsoft Windows correctly. Windoze In general, valgrind (probably not even conceived of when dmalloc was first written), is a much more

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 02 December 2010 21:13:47 Bob Paddock wrote: Peter, while all of this sounds great, could we fix the collective problems that we have now first? Like what, specifically? Scrap straight line rats in favour of using the topological auto-router? Do different rat lines help ship

Re: gEDA-user: New autorouter high effort mode

2010-12-01 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 01 December 2010 12:51:41 Kovacs Levente wrote: On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:53:38 +1100 Stephen Ecob silicon.on.inspirat...@gmail.com wrote: For my HE autorouter hack I have in mind to fork() off extra processes so that all of my CPU cores can run separate autorouter instances.

Re: gEDA-user: New branch of PCB

2010-11-19 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 16 Nov 2010 11:09:34 timecop wrote: With TopoR having a freeware version for 2 layers and up to 256 nets (or some other fairly high for 'hobby' use limitation), there's not really any point on bothering improving built in autorouter... Even this single sentence contains so many

Re: gEDA-user: current working file name in gschemrc

2010-11-19 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 19 November 2010 12:22:05 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: I'd like to replace this with the name of the schematic. The lp command can set the base name of the file with the option -t. But how would I teach gschemrc to automatically fill in the file name of the current schematic? Is there

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist crash

2010-11-13 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 13 November 2010 11:44:15 Levente Kovacs wrote: On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 11:24:06 +0100 Patrick Bernaud patri...@chez.com wrote: Could you please post the files of your project (directly to to the list or in private to the address above if you prefer)? Ok, I solved the problem.

Re: gEDA-user: gschem pin numbers

2010-11-13 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 13 November 2010 18:03:10 Stefan Salewski wrote: or you may try the new scheme API of Peter TB Brett, mentioned some weeks ago on this list. As an example of how gschem plugins can be written using this API, the attached `hide-pinseq.scm' file is a plugin for hiding all pinseq

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist crash

2010-11-12 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Friday 12 November 2010 23:37:18 Levente Kovacs wrote: Hi all, I could make gnetlist crash with the following command: gnetlist -q -g gsch2pcb -o pcb/if_card.new.pcb -m gnet- gsch2pcb-tmp.scm sch/if_card.sch sch/ps.sch Hi, Are you able to narrow it down to a minimal testcase at all?

Re: gEDA-user: Problems compiling PCB Release 20100929

2010-11-10 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 21:20:54 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Frank Bergmann wrote: Try ./configure --disable-dbus or try installing package libdbus-1-dev This is a common experience with the configure stage of geda and pcb. The script complains about a missing library even though the

Re: gEDA-user: Problems compiling PCB Release 20100929

2010-11-10 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:32:33 +, Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: On Wednesday 10 November 2010 21:20:54 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Frank Bergmann wrote: Try ./configure --disable-dbus or try installing package libdbus-1-dev This is a common experience with the configure stage

gEDA-user: Using the Scheme API: an example!

2010-11-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi folks, Here's a nice example of what can be done with the Scheme API even in its incomplete state. The attached plugin for gschem improves on gschem's built-in code for selecting a whole net (double-clicking on a net) by recognising and following netname= attributes. [1] To run it, check out

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL Testers (please test)

2010-11-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:08:15 +, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Try again now.. it is possible that I didn't have the correct patches pushed at that point. I was just pushing something out just now for someone at Intel to test (looking at a driver bug), so we might have collided.

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