On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 16:19 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:41:09 -0600, John Doty wrote:
> 
> >> stderr / stdout warning that there might be out-dated footprints for
> >> certain files.
> > 
> > Unacceptable. In a large project, such warnings are lost in the spew.
> 
> Those, who actually work on large projects will easily adapt and look for 
> these warnings, if they prove to contain critical information. grep and 
> awk are no rocket science.
> 
>  
> > When I change a symbol to fix a pin assignment, part number, footprint,
> > underlying hierarchical schematic, etc., I expect that change to
> > propagate.
> 
> I don't -- at least not automatically and by default. This kind of change 
> all too easily breaks existing schematics or layouts. Because of this, I 
> prefer an update of symbols or footprints only if I explicitly choose 
> so.   

Given a fictional "Project environment", it should be possible (after
editing a symbol file), that the tool you just closed would then pop up
some dialog:

/----------------------------------------\
| Update schematics                    |x|
|----------------------------------------|
| Update schematics with new version of  |
| heuristic-algorithm-unit.sym           |
|                                        |
| hal9000.sch                    [x]     |
| sal9000.sch                    [x]     |
|                                        |
|----------------------------------------|
|   |Deselect all| |Select all| | OK  |  |
\________________________________________/



-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
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