What? so this would change me from typing
gschem top.sch to geda gschem top.sch Well I am far to lazy to do that, though if others want to go ahead. But it makes no scense to me. Also it seems to mush like mother may I gschem top.sch Steve meier Stuart Brorson wrote: > I'll second Ryan's idea. I think that it would help newbies if gEDA > were to act like svn, say. That is, svn gives you a lot of tools to > perform various tasks, and you invoke them all like this: > > svn foo <args> > svn bar <args> > > I would propose that the following system would work quite well: > > geda -> brings up xgsch2pcb project browser, from where > you can run any of the tools by selecting the > correct menu option. > geda gschem -> command line symlink to gschem > geda gattrib -> command line symlink to gattrib > geda pcb -> command line symlink to pcb > etc. > > This would help unify the gEDA suite in people's minds. Also, if some > tools need certain environment variables set (i.e. search paths in > some future library system), then "geda" would be a script which would > first set the env vars, and then invoke the corresponding program. > > I don't think we should do away with the straight command-line > invocation of the programs, though. Rather, the above scheme would > supplement what we already have. > > Stuart > > > > > On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Ryan wrote: > > >> Has anyone here ever considered using a consistent naming scheme for gEDA's >> countless glue-scripts and general programs? It would seem very useful to >> adopt a naming convention similar to the git source control package - such >> as geda-pcb, geda-gattrib, geda-gsch2pcb, etc.. . This would allow the user >> to simply type "geda-" and use the tab for name completion; thus providing a >> method for users who don't use gEDA on a daily basis to stop trying to >> remember all of these odd-ball script names. I also think many new users are >> discouraged because, at first glance, they see a ton of seemingly unrelated >> programs and think, "I have to learn all of this to create a simple board?". >> I find the software very useful and would like to encourage others (students >> and professors at my University) to learn, but in my experience people are >> short on time and many have the point-and-click mentality that comes with >> almost all EDA software these days. Anything to lessen the learning curve >> and imp r >> > ov > >> e the new user experience is sure to bring many more people on board - and >> makes my task of promoting the software more convincing to those reluctant >> to try anything else. >> >> Thanks, >> Ryan >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> geda-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev > > _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
