Mail Archives: geda-user/2014/03/11/07:04:00
Roland Lutz:
> 1. multiple symbols with the same basename but different paths, and
Add same same name, same file, different version.
John Eaton mentioned different variants, not shure what he ment with it.
Stefan Salewski mentioned checksum for checking symbol equivalence.
> 2. having self-contained schematic files.
What's the use case for that, is it only for distributing schematics,
archiving, make your disk tree look nicer or is it for something else
also ?
"Self-contained" files could be solved the libreoffice way, simple
zip or tar up a (implicit) directory.
> Maybe the second problem could be solved by "embedding" each symbol the
> first time it is referenced while marking the embedded symbol as
> non-authoritative. This way, the tools could use the included symbol in
> case the library symbol is not found, and otherwise compare the symbol to
> the library version and, if outdated, offer to update it.
That sounds more like some kind of caching, or did I misunderstop you?
Regards,
/Karl Hammar
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