X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <540A22EF.5030701@estechnical.co.uk> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 21:54:07 +0100 From: Ed Simmons User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] Chinese glyph rendering in pcb as symbols References: <201409051618 DOT s85GIdb8024685 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <5409F1C2 DOT 3090406 AT xs4all DOT nl> <201409051752 DOT s85Hqnr2027362 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <20140905184829 DOT GH3196 AT cicely7 DOT cicely DOT de> <20140905204312 DOT GJ3196 AT cicely7 DOT cicely DOT de> In-Reply-To: <20140905204312.GJ3196@cicely7.cicely.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-As: ed AT estechnical DOT co DOT uk X-Extend-Src: mailout Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com On 05/09/14 21:43, Bernd Walter wrote: >>> > >> The tools and scripts would still work, all you'd have to do is feed them >>> > >> the text file from the zip. >> > > >> > > I consider this impractical if you regulary switch between text editor >> > > and PCB. >> > > And it completely breaks revision control systems without having a >> > > specific ZIP plugin. > > > > I'm curious if that is a very common use case among gEDA users? I and many others use gschem and pcb files in version control of some sort. The text file format is a huge bonus for us. Any zip type compression to package a file is a bad move as it breaks version control. I also love being able to hack at the PCB file in a text editor... Just my 2p (I'm in England...;-) ) Ed -- Ed Simmons ed AT estechnical DOT co DOT uk www.estechnical.co.uk