iPAd is about as closedsores and proprietary as it gets; you sure you want to support that?
On 5 Sep 2010 11:57, "Steven Michalske" <[1]smichal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Sep 4, 2010, at 8:49 AM, Andrew Poelstra <[2]as...@sfu.ca> wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 01:16:01AM -0400, Rick Collins wrote: >>> >>> Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel! >>> >>> The spec is large because it addresses a wide range of design >>> aspects, which is one of the great reasons for using it, one file >>> for the entire design, schematic, layout, mechanical, etc, even >>> board lay up. So the compatibility issue is moot because any one >>> app only needs to deal with the portion that applies to it. Just >>> don't muck with the other parts. >>> >>> The "heavy" issue is a red herring (are you planning on hosting this >>> on a cell phone maybe?) No PCB file format is going to be easy for >>> humans to read. Bandwidth? Back to the MCU in the cell phone I >>> guess. "Ugly", now there is a great technical argument. >>> >>> But I suppose it is better to re-invent the wheel. There is no >>> reason to try to foster any sort of compatibility in file formats >>> between all the different CAD tools. There are always conversion >>> programs to be written, no? >>> >> >> This is not an emotional argument, but a technical one, and the >> choice is not between XML and reinventing the wheel. (Sadly, my >> Lisp suggestion has been shot down - by better arguments than >> popularity, I might add. ;) There are other formats to consider, >> and yes, inventing one might be an option. >> >> How do you know PCB won't ever run on cell phones, or over a >> slow network link, or on an embedded device or network PC or >> overtaxed virtual machine? How do you know we won't one day >> need to work with 1000-layer boards when suddenly it /does/ >> matter how heavy the file format is? >> > Think BIG designs, a bloated file format will hurt. And I want PCB on my iPad. It has OpenGL ES, that would be putting it on a phone.... > >> Unless you want feature-parity with other CAD programs, it >> is impossible to have file-format-parity. So no matter what, >> conversion programs will have to be written. Creating similar >> file formats won't help anything, other than to limit our own >> format, and potentially cause problems if PCB and another CAD >> program are able to open (and corrupt) each other's files. >> >> >> Andrew >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> geda-user mailing list >> [3]geda-u...@moria.seul.org >> [4]http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [5]geda-u...@moria.seul.org > [6]http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user References 1. mailto:smichal...@gmail.com 2. mailto:as...@sfu.ca 3. mailto:geda-user@moria.seul.org 4. http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user 5. mailto:geda-user@moria.seul.org 6. http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
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