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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Back annotation
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On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com)
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> On 07/09/2015 11:26 AM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>>>>> If you’re just making changes until a diff shows nothing, it doesn’t matter whether you make them upstream or downstream. Just quit when you have a match!
>>>>>
>>>>> This sounds reasonable to me.  So the common denominator is to load a "target netlist" into gschem and show the differences between the current state and the target state, either by highlighting them in the schematic or by showing a diff?  This shouldn't be too difficult to implement.
>>>>
>>>> Not into gschem. Keep gschem clean, please. I just displayed a diff in a terminal window.
>>>
>>>   Why are you assuming that adding this (or anything else!) will
>>> automatically make gschem "dirty"?
>>
>> It would be dirty. It breaks the unix mentality by integrating too
>> much stuff into one program and violates the otherwise clean symmetry
>> we are going for in workflow.
>>
>> Forward the flow is
>> gschem -> sch file -> gnetlist -> netlist file -> pcb
>> gschem -> sch file -> gsch2pcb -> pcb file -> pcb
>>
>> the reverse should be something like
>> pcb -> pcb file -> pcb2netlist -> netlist file -> netlist2gsch -> sch
>> file -> gschem
>> pcb -> pcb file -> pcb2sch -> sch file -> gschem
>>
>> See how each tool only does on step. That is one of the principles
>> that make gEDA great. Integrating more stuff into one program is more
>> like what kicad would do.
>
>   Yes I'm quite familiar with (and applaud) the UNIX many-small-tools
> philosophy.  Making these sorts of connections between these "small"
> (using the world loosely) programs in real time, at runtime, rather than
> connected by files and doing them separately, does not violate this
> philosophy.  If it did, UNIX would not have pipes.


Well the bit I was omitting is it takes shared libraries and makefiles.


>               -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
>



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