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On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 11:13:26 -0400
"Jason White (whitewaterssoftwareinfo AT gmail DOT com) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> Hello Lev, I am interested in seeing how the database will turn out.

Nice to hear that.

> I don't see a text primitive. How do you intend to handle text on the
> circuit board? I suppose could define each symbol as a component (very
> similar to what PCB does already).

Yes, text is not yet implemented. My take on this is to use graphical
primitives, and draw texts from those, just like gEDA/pcb uses lines.

> If you get a chance, I it would be helpful for my understanding to
> have a mock-up database to look at. (I'm afraid the specification's
> formatting is somewhat hard for me to follow) A sqlite file containing
> a few components, pad-stacks, nets, and tracks is all I'd like to see.
> (ie. surface mount resistor hooked to 2 pin jumper).

Okay, that sounds fair.

I have very limited bandwidth to work on gEDA nowadays. However, there is the
'generate.sh' shell script that creates an empty database. There is a perl
script that parses a gEDA/pcb file and "INSERT"s it to a previously created
database. Unfortunately the script is very far from finished state.

With that script written, I will post examples.
 
> Once that exists, I think it should be easy to see if there are any
> omissions or redundancies in the specification.

Yes.

Please stay tuned, I do my best to work on the conversion script... but
tonight, I have to recover my PostgreSQL database from a backup.

Lev

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