On Jun 28, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Stefan Salewski wrote: > Currently we (may) have different symbol files for the the same device > with different footprints.
Not a lot, I think. It's easier to find examples of the same device with different graphics. > So we have the same graphics elements > multiple times. > This is redundancy, wast of storage area, On my little netbook, the whole distributed symbol library takes up ~0.1% of the file system. And I don't think there's really a whole lot of redundancy of the kind you're talking about. > and it makes > it more work to modify the graphics. In the published symbols, the graphics rarely need modification, I think. > So it is not a perfect solution. Nothing's perfect. But is is simple, flexible, and pretty transparent. Those are virtues one should not take for granted. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ [email protected] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
