I mentioned it on this list before, but here is a more formal announcement:
In the Neo900 project we're faced with having to maintain complex schematics that are edited by several people and that are kept in a git repo. To keep track of each other's work (and sometimes one's own) and to resolve conflicts, it is often necessary to compare different versions. Unfortunately, textual diffs are often hard to interpret, and making visual diffs is difficult, in part also because of eeschema's lack of non-interactive plotting. So I decided to spend a couple of days to write a little tool to plot Eeschema schematics from the command line. One month flew past, and now I have an interactive viewer :-) The viewer also makes it easy to hop around in the git history. Eeshow is still far from being perfect, but I think it's good enough for a reasonable first impression. Eeshow is a collection of three tools, the interactive viewer eeshow, and the command-line only tools eeplot and eediff. It is written in C and runs on Linux using Gtk+ 3 and Cairo. The code lives here: https://neo900.org/git?p=eeshow;a=summary I've prepared a little walk-through that shows the main features of the GUI: https://neo900.org/stuff/eeshow/ Some more examples for use from the command line, and also with other projects than Neo900: https://neo900.org/git?p=eeshow;a=blob;f=DEMO For the future, I plan to work my way through the "to do" list https://neo900.org/git?p=eeshow;a=blob;f=TODO especially adding better support for projects spanning multiple repositories (e.g., board design on one, libraries in another) and handling of renamed files, fix bugs and memory leaks, and clean up things a little. Feedback welcome. - Werner _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
