X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-TCPREMOTEIP: 50.241.103.195 X-Authenticated-UID: jpd AT noqsi DOT com From: John Doty Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_49F89B83-1F7A-4D4C-8AEE-4F082F44513B" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Subject: Re: [geda-user] Re: Project file Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:33:07 -0400 References: <20180723152807 DOT 13d27cadcd023b63aa3fd9c0 AT gmail DOT com> <20180723174658 DOT 32979841DEBA AT turkos DOT aspodata DOT se> <20180723195942 DOT 605CB841DEBA AT turkos DOT aspodata DOT se> <20180724132731 DOT 76074841DEBC AT turkos DOT aspodata DOT se> <20180724161712 DOT f0082dda1044e41179fa82f0 AT gmail DOT com> <20180724145644 DOT 122BA841DEC5 AT turkos DOT aspodata DOT se> To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <39ED8521-8F29-474F-B673-7A8EC4F50BF7@noqsi.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk --Apple-Mail=_49F89B83-1F7A-4D4C-8AEE-4F082F44513B Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On Jul 25, 2018, at 12:34 PM, Roland Lutz wrote: >=20 > On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, John Doty wrote: >> You may have different symbol libraries for prototype and production. >=20 > How would these symbols be different: in top-level attributes, in pin = attributes, in pin geometry, or in graphical design? >=20 >=20 The most common difference is footprint. If I have things like = manufacturer=E2=80=99s part number as attributes, that changes too. = Sometimes pin numbers change. Sometimes pin count changes: that 18 pin = MOSFET symbol I posted recently drops right into a schematic originally = designed for a 3 pin part. Lately, I=E2=80=99ve been handling such issues more in git than in = makefiles (prototype and production have separate branches), but git is = another generic tool rather than something that locks you in to a = specific toolset. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ jpd AT noqsi DOT com --Apple-Mail=_49F89B83-1F7A-4D4C-8AEE-4F082F44513B Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
On Jul 25, 2018, at 12:34 PM, Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org> = wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, John Doty wrote:
You may have different symbol libraries for = prototype and production.

How = would these symbols be different: in top-level attributes, in pin = attributes, in pin geometry, or in graphical design?



The most common difference is footprint. If I have = things like manufacturer=E2=80=99s part number as attributes, that = changes too. Sometimes pin numbers change. Sometimes pin count changes: = that 18 pin MOSFET symbol I posted recently drops right into a schematic = originally designed for a 3 pin part.

Lately, I=E2=80=99ve been handling such issues = more in git than in makefiles (prototype and production have separate = branches), but git is another generic tool rather than something that = locks you in to a specific toolset.

John Doty              Noqsi = Aerospace, Ltd.

http://www.noqsi.com/

jpd AT noqsi DOT com

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