A random thought occurred to me today - why does gschem do slotting at all? Why does it care about footprints and packages? Would it make more sense, from a design flow perspective, to just send the symbolic information to pcb and let pcb assign footprints and pinouts?
That way, gschem does all the symbolic stuff, and pcb does all the physical stuff. It would, of course, mean major changes to pcb to handle "elements without footprints yet" and stuff, as well as mapping multiple refdes's to single elements. Probably make power pin management more complex too, unless we came up with a new way to manage "hidden" pins. Anyway, food for thought. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
