On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Joshua <[1]jos...@laserlinc.com>
wrote:
I agree with Delorie. I also was only making slow progress with
gattrib. I found the copy and paist functionality limited and
strange. I also was confronted with the add column bug. If I
remember correctly it corrupted my files when it shifted the
properties from one heading to the next. That is why I started
exporting to a oocalc. Then I was able to get a lot more work done
as oocalc is a refined product. I hadn't found the sch2csv or
csv2sch scripts at that time and thus made my own version called
gattrib_csv. Not only have I been able to edit the properties
en-mass, but I have also been able to import data generated by other
users provided as xls files. I now use the one and the same tool to
generate the bill of materials for the project as I do to edit the
properties.
[2]http://public.laserlinc.com/Joshua/gattrib_csv.java
compiled by
gcj --main=gattrib_csv -o gattrib_csv gattrib_csv.java
Yes, the functionality of those (DJ Delorie) scripts (from what little
I have been able to find that describes what they do), seem to fit the
attribute edit and BoM generation requirements very nicely. I hope I
can say the same after I try them out.
So, this causes me to ask the question: Why hasen't gattrib been
removed from:[3]http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gaf ???? as well as any
other instances?
While the concept is good, the implementation is worthless, and
apparently has been 'around' with the same sort of problems since
2006. As a person who is trying to give the gEDA approach a try,
frustrations mount daily in trying to make progress.
This brings up another issue that I am curious about....the one of
component symbol libraries.
My expectation (hope, guess?) was with an effort that is open source,
users would contribute their symbols to the library, and the symbol
library would be huge. I didn't find that reality. I assumed this
because users would 'giveback' to the community. Clearly some have
done this. I plan on doing this (if I continue down this path). So why
hasen't the component mfgs been inclined to develop and contribute
symbols? Why hasen't the users contributed more? Perhaps there are
not too many users. Perhaps it is a case of: The tools have been built
but the users are not comming. Anyway, just curious....
-John
References
1. mailto:jos...@laserlinc.com
2. http://public.laserlinc.com/Joshua/gattrib_csv.java
3. http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gaf
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