On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:48:01 -0500 (EST), Stuart Brorson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Richard wrote:] > > I would like to add something to the wish list : the ability to do a > > diff and even better a merge in between two schematic. That will beat > > many commercial tools... > > This would be cool. However, I wonder why you would want to do this > with the schematic capture package, when you can do it using unix > command line utilities on gschem's ASCII files. Is there an > advantage, or am I misunderstanding something?
Think of the difference between raw diff output, and viewcvs's color coding. In a schematic, you could have the graphical equivalent of "change bars" by changing the background color where parts of the schematic have changed. This could be a little different than what Richard is thinking, but I agree that the basic concept would be a handy addition. Then again, it's probably not a walk in the park to code, either. (/me mumbles something about Python and wanders off...) -- - Charles Lepple
