Mail Archives: geda-user/2014/10/18/13:01:18
Using libgeda for gschdiff is more like what I was imagining.
All this talk about version control and diff is making me wonder.
Visual diff is sweet and all but I feel like we are missing something
work flow wise.
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Roger Williams <roger AT qux DOT com> wrote:
> Sorry, I wasn't clear.
>
> I was referring to the feasibility of creating a "gschdiff" utility that renders a visual diff of two raw schematic files using the libgeda libraries.
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> Roger Williams <roger AT qux DOT com>
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> On 18 Oct 2014, at 02:03, Evan Foss <evanfoss AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Roger.
>>
>> I am curious though. Would it not make more sense to use the command
>> line version of diffpdf? Personally I prefer to draft in GUI but do
>> all the other stuff from makefiles and things. I don't mean to talk
>> you out of contributing.
>>
>> Has anyone looked for schdiff(1) in
>> http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:gaf
>> I never noticed it was there.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Roger Williams <roger AT qux DOT com> wrote:
>>> Hmm, I tend to agree with Evan. The strength of FOSS tools (and UNIX utilities in general) have always been their ability to be used as parts of a flexible toolbox that can be combined as needed. This is even true of large EDA tools, so long as they rely on text files as their medium.
>>>
>>> I've built, examined, and built the diffPDF code under Linux and OSX, and I think that it is certainly feasible for a single volunteer to develop a visual "gschdiff" utility. Probably the largest workload would be adapting the Qt code to Gtk.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Roger Williams <roger AT qux DOT com>
>>> Chief Technical Officer, Qux Corporation
>>> 245 Russell Street, Hadley, MA 01035, USA
>>> Tel +1 508 287-1420 * Fax +1 508 302-0230
>>>
>>> On 17 Oct 2014, at 20:58, Evan Foss <evanfoss AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why can't we have a gschdiff command that generates colorized or
>>>> shaded (for the color blind) schematic files where the file A is one
>>>> shade and file B is the other.
>>>>
>>>> Why is that FOSS-volunteer-infeasible?
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:46 PM, John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com> wrote:
>>>>> On 10/17/2014 12:44 PM, Evan Foss wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think we want the diff functions internal to the geda and friends
>>>>>> and the version control external.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't see that as easy in the context of volunteer developers.
>>>>>
>>>>> The internal part could be limited to defining the no-person's-land
>>>>> zone, and exporting the data in that zone, without netlist,
>>>>> for use by an external diff program and the results tracked by
>>>>> an external VCS.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's FOSS-volunteer-feasible.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Work
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/
>> Work
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>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Roger Williams <roger AT qux DOT com> wrote:
>>> Hmm, I tend to agree with Evan. The strength of FOSS tools (and UNIX utilities in general) have always been their ability to be used as parts of a flexible toolbox that can be combined as needed. This is even true of large EDA tools, so long as they rely on text files as their medium.
>>>
>>> I've built, examined, and built the diffPDF code under Linux and OSX, and I think that it is certainly feasible for a single volunteer to develop a visual "gschdiff" utility. Probably the largest workload would be adapting the Qt code to Gtk.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Roger Williams <roger AT qux DOT com>
>>> Chief Technical Officer, Qux Corporation
>>> 245 Russell Street, Hadley, MA 01035, USA
>>> Tel +1 508 287-1420 * Fax +1 508 302-0230
>>>
>>> On 17 Oct 2014, at 20:58, Evan Foss <evanfoss AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why can't we have a gschdiff command that generates colorized or
>>>> shaded (for the color blind) schematic files where the file A is one
>>>> shade and file B is the other.
>>>>
>>>> Why is that FOSS-volunteer-infeasible?
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:46 PM, John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com> wrote:
>>>>> On 10/17/2014 12:44 PM, Evan Foss wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think we want the diff functions internal to the geda and friends
>>>>>> and the version control external.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't see that as easy in the context of volunteer developers.
>>>>>
>>>>> The internal part could be limited to defining the no-person's-land
>>>>> zone, and exporting the data in that zone, without netlist,
>>>>> for use by an external diff program and the results tracked by
>>>>> an external VCS.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's FOSS-volunteer-feasible.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Home
>>>> http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/
>>>> Work
>>>> http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Home
>> http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/
>> Work
>> http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/
>>
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