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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. -- Roger Williams Chief Technical Officer, Qux Corporation 245 Russell Street, Hadley, MA 01035, USA Tel +1 508 287-1420 * Fax +1 508 302-0230 On 18 Oct 2014, at 02:03, Evan Foss 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 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 >> 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 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 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/ > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Roger Williams 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 >> 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 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 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/ >