On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 16:59 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Wed, 28 May 2008 23:43:11 +0200, Levente Kovacs wrote: > > > By the way... I think it would be nice if a *.pcb file only contained > > references to footprints (a la gschem), not the copy of them like as it > > is now. > > With pcb layout I'd regard referencing to external footprints a non- > feature. The layout would be vulnerable to breakage --> not good.
We need a hybrid approach, where the in-PCB cached version is retained, yet PCB can inform you / allow you to mass-update footprints which have changed on disk. Quite why so many people objected when Peter B suggested that for gschem, I have no idea. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
