John Doty wrote: > On Aug 12, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Jason wrote: > >> John Doty wrote: >> [huge snip] >>> I have no objection to wrappers. What I object to is the constant >>> demand to fix perceived problems by violating the fairly clean, >>> modular nature of the kit. Rather, we need to make things *more* >>> modular (e.g. get the hardwired behavior out of the gnetlist front >>> end). >>> >> Would having a footprint browser popup in gschem when the user >> tries to >> add a footprint attribute violate the modular nature of the kit? > > Unless you can provide an interface that would make this work with > all of the ~10 PCB layout programs gEDA can currently operate with, > and a reasonably easy path to make it work in the future with others, > I would say that violates modularity. >
A footprint search path (eg. pcb's) and regex search of filenames would be all that was needed. >> As an experience linux user, I appreciate the command-line power of >> gaf. >> As a new gEDA user trying to get it done quickly, switching from the >> gschem gui to the cli grepping around got old. >> >> I like the fact that there is a dropdown of common attribute names >> (right-click a symbol, edit), and that you can type in your own if you >> like. Doing something similar in the Value box seems reasonable. Or, >> perhaps a "browse footprints" button below the Value box (only visible >> when attribute is footprint). > > Which tool's footprints do you wish to browse through? > See above. >> On another note, how much resistance would there be to using regex >> (libpcre is already in there) when searching of footprint names? This >> would be in both pcb, > > Remember, pcb is not part of gEDA, and is only one of many possible > layout programs gEDA can use. > oops. Does my first reply, above, fit the flexibility model? Is it industry practice to store one footprint per file with a descriptive name? >> and the hypothetical gschem footprint browser. > > Regex are good. > especially with ketchup. thx, Jason. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
