On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:49 -0600, John Doty wrote: > > I thought you were arguing in favour of the previous behaviour, > > where it > > is pretty hard, if impossible to auto-update the footprints in a .pcb > > file. > > That's because you don't use a project-specific copy of the symbol. > If you do, it's just Hs, change the footprint, make.
I'm talking about PCB, PCB footprints / packages (.fp). Once they are in your layout (.pcb), they are there to stay. No change to the .fp file will update the board layout, and there is no easy / foolproof way to replace footprints already placed with an updated copy from a new .fp file. > A worthy goal. Never achieved in any large-scale use of make that > I've ever seen, though. Most of the gEDA tools have options to switch of the licence information which is output verbatim at each run - that should be a start. > I don't use PCB. My customers all have their own PCB flows. But here, > the issue for me is schematic reuse: the layout generally has to be > redone for any new project, even if most of the schematics are reused > from previous ones. I did wonder, from your previous comments. PCB can't do the equivelant of what the gEDA tools do with non-embedded symbols. -- 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
