Re: gEDA-user: PCB: DRC segfault on a ratline

2009-11-19 Thread Ineiev
On 11/19/09, Peter Clifton wrote: > I tried it, and couldn't reproduce a crash, neither under gdb or > valgrind. What are the steps to reproduce? I had reproduced it faultlessly on two different machines with different GUIs before I reported; after your post I went to a third and reproduced it so

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread John Doty
On Nov 19, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: > The code which refreshes the pin-numbers when you change these > unusually > attached attributes is broken (missing) in git HEAD. Various special > case checks for "slot=" exist, but none of the others. Nice things > start > to happen when

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread John Doty
The bottom line question for the core developers is: What prevents us from writing a file of Guile functions and adding a line to gafrc to load it and get this functionality? On Nov 19, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Henry Von Bank wrote: > > After a symbol is placed in the schematic an attribute should be

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: DRC segfault on a ratline

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 18:39 +, Ineiev wrote: > Hello; > > I just fed tut1.pcb from PCB distribution to DRC and got another > segmentation fault. I tried it, and couldn't reproduce a crash, neither under gdb or valgrind. What are the steps to reproduce? Are you on Lesstif or GTK? Admittedly

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread Henry Von Bank
While I am wasting time with this mailing list when I should be working, here is how I propose to change the symbol organization. Feel free to do with this as you wish, including criticizing any of the (I'm sure many) issues with this proposal. Symbol file The symbol itself should

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread Bill Gatliff
Henry Von Bank wrote: >What I would propose would be to leave the slotting behavior alone for >the time being (option a), but hopefully mark it for deprecation in >some future version, as it can be confusing and is not well defined. > We could actually leave it alone almost indefini

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:38 -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > > > > > The two other EDA suites I worked (eagle and protel) with maintain the > > notion of a "component" that contains all the info. In a way, this is a > > very heavy symbol that knows about slots, possible fo

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread Peter TB Brett
Bill Gatliff wrote: > Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > >> The two other EDA suites I worked (eagle and protel) with maintain the >> notion of a "component" that contains all the info. In a way, this is a >> very heavy symbol that knows about slots, possible footprints and which >> schematic symbols

gEDA-user: PCB: DRC segfault on a ratline

2009-11-19 Thread Ineiev
Hello; I just fed tut1.pcb from PCB distribution to DRC and got another segmentation fault. diff --git a/src/find.c b/src/find.c index 1962234..d5f1332 100644 --- a/src/find.c +++ b/src/find.c @@ -4417,6 +4417,7 @@ BuildObjectList (int *object_count, long int **object_id_list, int **object_type

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread Bill Gatliff
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > > The two other EDA suites I worked (eagle and protel) with maintain the > notion of a "component" that contains all the info. In a way, this is a > very heavy symbol that knows about slots, possible footprints and which > schematic symbols are necessary to represent

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Sokolov
Bill Gatliff wrote: > Now I'm beginning to see the problems with slotting and symbols the way > we're doing them now: they unnecessarily tie the concept of a symbol to > the concept of a component, because the pin numbers that we currently > record in our symbols are also the pin numbers that the

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread Henry Von Bank
I've been using gEDA for a while, and have been following this thread closely. There have been a lot of good arguments from all sides for how things should work. I'm wondering if we should take a more pragmatic way of looking at things. There are a few options: a) keep the slotti

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread DJ Delorie
> > If they fitted a dooms-day device controller on the spare die-space of > > May I remind you your under a NDA! No Doomsday Agreement? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 10:38 -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Now I'm beginning to see the problems with slotting and symbols the way > we're doing them now: they unnecessarily tie the concept of a symbol to > the concept of a component, because the pin numbers that we currently > record in our symbols

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread Dave N6NZ
Bill Gatliff wrote: > Now I'm beginning to see the problems with slotting and symbols the way > we're doing them now: they unnecessarily tie the concept of a symbol to > the concept of a component, because the pin numbers that we currently > record in our symbols are also the pin numbers that the

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread John Doty
On Nov 19, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: >> Lets say I have a symbol: >> >> ---|\ >> ---|/ >> >> >> That might have 4 slots - IE.. I expect 4 of those nand gates in the >> chip. >> > > ... and I think that might be where the problem suddenly cre

Re: gEDA-user: Teardrop plugin

2009-11-19 Thread Steven Michalske
On Nov 19, 2009, at 6:03 AM, Vincent Onelli wrote: > Hello, > > I downloaded teardrop.c file, I would like to use, but I do not know > how > to compile and install can anybody give me direction? > Thank you. Vinny > > http://github.com/bert/pcb-plugins/ go clone that repo, and it has a makefil

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread Steven Michalske
On Nov 19, 2009, at 7:18 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: > If they fitted a dooms-day device controller on the spare die-space of > the chip.. that again, could be a separate symbol. May I remind you your under a NDA! ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@m

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:18:39 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > We could "probably" do with some additional annotations "somewhere" > about exactly what pieces constitute a physical device - or sub-circuit, > but that that would be an addition - rather than the abuse of an > existing interface. The tw

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread Bill Gatliff
Peter Clifton wrote: > Lets say I have a symbol: > > ---|\ > ---|/ > > > That might have 4 slots - IE.. I expect 4 of those nand gates in the > chip. > ... and I think that might be where the problem suddenly creeps in. The _component_ defines how many and what kinds of ci

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread John Doty
On Nov 19, 2009, at 6:53 AM, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Peter TB Brett wrote: >> And, furthermore, if I/we fixed it to work as designed, some users >> would be >> up in arms -- because they have been using the mechanism in a way >> contrary >> to its design, and fixing it to work as designed has b

Re: gEDA-user: Teardrop plugin

2009-11-19 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 09:03 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote: > Hello, > > I downloaded teardrop.c file, I would like to use, but I do not know how > to compile and install can anybody give me direction? > Thank you. Vinny > http://www.delorie.com/pcb/teardrops/ __

Re: gEDA-user: Teardrop plugin

2009-11-19 Thread DJ Delorie
> I downloaded teardrop.c file, I would like to use, but I do not know how > to compile and install can anybody give me direction? http://www.delorie.com/pcb/teardrops/ ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/ma

Re: gEDA-user: Teardrop plugin

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 09:03 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote: > Hello, > > I downloaded teardrop.c file, I would like to use, but I do not know how > to compile and install can anybody give me direction? > Thank you. Vinny http://www.delorie.com/pcb/teardrops/ Quoting: """ Install Compile like this:

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread John Doty
On Nov 19, 2009, at 1:33 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:21:10 -0700, John Doty wrote: > >>> I hold that a "slot" is related to a multiplicity of identical units >>> within the chip, and the slotting mechanism was _not_ intended as an >>> arbitrary way of fudging different com

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 01:23 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:17:02 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > It is a perfect example of why gEDA can never grow more "friendly" > > interfaces to these problems. _Because_ the existing interface can be > > abused - and people think it

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread John Doty
On Nov 19, 2009, at 3:00 AM, Michael Sokolov wrote: > John Doty wrote: > >> A powerful component of an electronic design *automation* process. >> Not the usual fritterware tool that forces you to tell it what to do, >> repeatedly, by manual operation. Do graphics with GUI, do flow with >> script

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread John Doty
On Nov 18, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 20:53 +, Peter Clifton wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 18:57 +0100, Stephan Boettcher wrote: > >>> I think I'd prefer flexible mechanism instead of multiple mechanism >>> doing almost the same. >> >> Fine, condemn us to

gEDA-user: Teardrop plugin

2009-11-19 Thread Vincent Onelli
Hello, I downloaded teardrop.c file, I would like to use, but I do not know how to compile and install can anybody give me direction? Thank you. Vinny ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ged

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread Bill Gatliff
Peter TB Brett wrote: > And, furthermore, if I/we fixed it to work as designed, some users would be > up in arms -- because they have been using the mechanism in a way contrary > to its design, and fixing it to work as designed has broken their > schematics. > During the transition between the

Re: gEDA-user: How to deal with single/dual parts?

2009-11-19 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:21:10 -0700, John Doty wrote: >> I hold that a "slot" is related to a multiplicity of identical units >> within the chip, and the slotting mechanism was _not_ intended as an >> arbitrary way of fudging different combinations of pin-numbers into >> the >> netlist in variou

Re: gEDA-user: Black background on pcb

2009-11-19 Thread Anthony Shanks
Hey Peter I just tried your color scheme and it looks great, I'll definately be using it. Thanks. On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:02 -0800, Anthony Shanks wrote: >> I've tried looking at some pcb docs and have played around with the >> preferences