Mail Archives: geda-user/2014/03/09/19:51:49
Stefan Salewski:
> On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 00:40 +0400, Алексей Харьковский wrote:
> > > The problem with all these ideas is that they make schematics less
> > > reusable.
> > >
> > Disagree.
> > Problems depends not on ideas but on their implementation.
Ohoh, wrong ideas causes more problems than errors in implementations.
To somewhat sum up, to solve the "indentical symbol names" problem, you
can simply embed the symbol, for simple schematics the problem is
solved. I see no reason to change any program for that case, since
there is a "workaround".
For bigger schematics with lots of symbols in it, it would mean
possible execessive copies within the file. But bigger schematics also
means a lot of other things that I don't have experience about. My guess
that putting the symbol in a library section of the file simply doesn't
cut it. As a midway solution, why not add a "save this symbol as" in
the library browser, then the manual copying and renaming argument
would be moot (that could also be done by an external program) and
the file format doesn't have to change ?
Also, I don't see the "one file solution" to be viable for the big
complex case, since you probably already have a lot of files in your
project. And if you still want just one file, you can simply zip or tar
up the files, gschem doesn't have to provide that functionality.
John Eaton's comment 8 mars seems more reasonable, you want to be able
to put in libs of symbols from different vendors/devs/people and to be
able to have them versioned. In that scenario gschem have to know the
vendor/author name, git/cvs/etc. id, and possible other things.
Soo, I don't see the use case for a library section in gschem files.
...
> Long time ago I suggested that gschem should store a checksum for each
> referenced symbol, so changes of that symbol can be detected.
...
I wouldn't mind a checksum, but in what way doesn't a git/cvs/... id
handle that case ?
Regards,
/Karl Hammar
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