Hi all, FWIW:
I think it's not too difficult to see __all__ gschem users as schematic drawers, and to see CVS and this mailing list as the symbol maintainer. Besides this, new users know they are on a learning curve and know that they have to invest time to sort things out, and most of the time new users start from scratch drawing schematics in gschem, I know I did once. On the other hand, the average or skilled user could/should know what to expect if he/she opens an archived schematic with/without symbols embedded (as in garchive, BTW is this an official gEDA tool by now ?)). And most important of all: you __allways__ have to check "old" schematics before you make changes/additions. So I welcome any new feature of checking the current symbols (as in the symbols library) against the "old" symbols (as in the schematic). If any mismatches are found it's up to the user to vote for "replace", "replace all" or "skip". I think that protecting the symversion by means of a "protect" flag can be considered as a Good Thing (TM). It should be altered when an update is made in the gEDA-CVS repository (maybe the "symversion=$Revision$" attribute as a invisible text would do the trick ?). Just my EUR 0.01 on this subject. Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Werner Hoch Sent: zaterdag 15 januari 2005 15:30 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: gEDA: Invisible attributes on symbols On Friday 14 January 2005 09:44, Peter Kaiser wrote: 8<--- [snip snip] deletia > This gives the user the freedom to see all attributes and prevents > new users for making mistakes by changing the wrong attributes. Well that would be usefull for a large company who has a part maintainer and lots of schematic drawers. I'm not sure about that. regards Werner
