Re: gEDA-user: gEDA programming

2010-04-23 Thread gedau
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:00:20PM +0200, Miguel S?nchez de Le?n Peque wrote: >Hi all, >I'm a student interested in contributing to gEDA and learn some C ;-). >The biggest problem I find any time I start coding is "how should I >write this?". You're always talking about deprecated c

Re: gEDA-user: OT: Bike Alarms

2010-05-13 Thread gedau
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:41:19AM -0500, John Griessen wrote: > David SMITH wrote: >> John Griessen wrote: >>> David C. Kerber wrote: If you've got a carbon frame, you could drop it into the seat tube, where it would never be seen, and therefore never removed by a thief... >>> Thi

gEDA-user: broken part

2010-06-11 Thread gedau
Hi all, sorry for the offtopic; we have a broken part which supposed to be a transducer in a board driving a tiny CRT. The sticker on the part says "Lucius & Baer TYP: VM 102-L" (http://igor2.repo.hu/tmp/VM102.jpg). Has anyone met this part or does anyone have an idea for a substitute? Regard

Re: gEDA-user: Ricks email client

2010-08-23 Thread gedau
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:40:25PM -0600, John Doty wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:23 PM, kai-martin knaak wrote: > > > If > > there still is no change, it must be gmane munging header and encoding. > > Still in base64. Raw text of your message reads: > > UmljayBDb2xsaW5zIHdyb3RlOgoKPj53aW5k

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-03 Thread gedau
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 01:16:01AM -0400, Rick Collins wrote: > But I suppose it is better to re-invent the wheel. There is no reason to > try to foster any sort of compatibility in file formats between all the > different CAD tools. There are always conversion programs to be written, > no?

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-14 Thread gedau
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:26:28AM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:08:25PM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: > > XML is far too heavy, agreed, and it's signal-to-noise ratio is abysmal. > > I think that using a Lisp (or Lispy-looking) format would be extensible, > > easy to parse

Re: gEDA-user: very backward time step?

2010-09-23 Thread gedau
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 08:52:26AM -0400, al davis wrote: > On Tuesday 21 September 2010, Rub?n G?mez Antol? wrote: > > Gnucap 2009.12 is so stable, why not released? > > > > (In several days, I think even ask at debian maintainer to > > include snapshots, at least, in experimental branch of > >

Re: gEDA-user: pcb crooked traces

2010-10-11 Thread gedau
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 01:57:48PM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:19:39PM +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 11:26 -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: > > > > > I'm just throwing ideas into the air. What do you guys think? > > > > > > > Andrew, I am not

Re: gEDA-user: Dev list [was: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB]

2010-12-09 Thread gedau
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:27:31AM +, Peter TB Brett wrote: > If I remember correctly, a major factor in the closure of the gEDA-dev list > was that the signal to noise ratio became very low. There were several > people, few of whom *ever* submitted patches, loudly and rudely telling the

Re: gEDA-user: Resistor values???

2010-12-25 Thread gedau
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 09:23:17PM -0500, Mark wrote: > So, because I use several methods, a single one-size-fits-all library is just > not going to work for me. > I *could* make use of a library of heavy symbols but I still need the > lightweight symbols, too. If I > was forced to choose

Re: gEDA-user: scripting (was Resistor values???)

2010-12-29 Thread gedau
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 08:51:19PM +0100, Stephan Boettcher wrote: > John Doty writes: > > > On Dec 29, 2010, at 6:23 AM, Stephan Boettcher wrote: > > > >> I can imagine that it's not a lot, since this is really a classical > >> case for said design pattern. > > > > The real difficulty here is t

Re: gEDA-user: Seeing pin numbers in PCB

2010-12-30 Thread gedau
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:48:00PM -0800, Oliver King-Smith wrote: >Being lazy I am importing footprints other folks kindly made for pcb. >Unfortunately, I am not very trusting, so I want to check they are >correct. >I can measure the size of stuff using gerbv (there may be a better

Re: gEDA-user: scripting for pcb

2010-12-30 Thread gedau
Hi Karl, On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:29:21PM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote: > Tibor: > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 08:51:19PM +0100, Stephan Boettcher wrote: > ... > > > And when that's the case, a clean C-API that can be exported to Guile, > > > Python, Ruby, C++, Fortran, ... just dreaming. > [the above

Re: gEDA-user: Collaborative Development of Boards

2011-01-16 Thread gedau
Hello Markus, On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:11:31PM +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: > Hi all, > > having run an open source electronics project with the intention of > collaborative development for a few months now, the experience is less > than inspiring. So I'm looking for opinions on how to do bett

Re: gEDA-user: Collaborative Development of Boards

2011-01-16 Thread gedau
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 08:22:02AM +0100, Stephan Boettcher wrote: > ge...@igor2.repo.hu writes: > > > If you edit one object, that won't ever move other objects around by > > side effect. VCS systems I know depend on this feature. I think PCB > > already provides this feature, keeping order of

Re: gEDA-user: .sch primitive ordering [was: Collaborative Development of Boards]

2011-01-17 Thread gedau
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:26:58AM +, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Monday 17 Jan 2011 08:58:18 John Doty wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > > Due to the way the gschem editing model works, and particularly the undo > > > system, stuff tends to get shifted to the end

Re: gEDA-user: Time tracking

2011-02-02 Thread gedau
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 07:26:12PM -0500, Darryl Gibson wrote: > Hello Group, > > I'm curious what folks are using for time tracking and/or billing? > > Spreadsheets, software? We have a custom software called "wt" (as working time). It is designed by programmers for programmers, to minimize ad

Re: gEDA-user: OT?: Altium (Protel) Relocates From Sydney Australia to Shanghai China

2011-04-09 Thread gedau
On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 10:51:00AM -0400, Bob Paddock wrote: > The developers always wanted to know "the fastest way" to do something > and had no interest in learning "the best way" to do something. Lately I had the chance to work together with professional software developers from multiple

Re: gEDA-user: default pcb stackup change?

2011-04-10 Thread gedau
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:58:51AM +0530, Abhijit Kshirsagar wrote: > 1. Agree! I'd find this much more intuitive and easy to work with. The > layers option will be a big help... +1 I also like the ieda of dropping component/solder side, replacing it with whatever else that suggests "one side" a

Re: gEDA-user: Spam Email to This List

2011-04-13 Thread gedau
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 01:02:40PM +0100, Andrew Seddon wrote: > Yes I got this. > > OT: I'm new hear so please feel free to ignore this comment, but might > it be worth switching to google groups or similar? The interface is > nice and you can use it like a traditional mailing list if desired. L

Re: gEDA-user: Spam Email to This List

2011-04-13 Thread gedau
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:36:20AM -0400, rickman wrote: > On 4/13/2011 8:56 AM, ge...@igor2.repo.hu wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 01:02:40PM +0100, Andrew Seddon wrote: >>> Yes I got this. >>> >>> OT: I'm new hear so please feel free to ignore this comment, but might >>> it be worth switching

Re: gEDA-user: Where is pcb-20100929 for Win32 ?

2011-04-15 Thread gedau
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:35:28PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > Another note - when uploading the EXE, please be sure to upload ALL > the sources used to build it - yes, all the .tar.gz for all the > libraries built. Really. Kai and I can't make the binary available > without also making all tho

Re: gEDA-user: zview/ngscope

2011-04-17 Thread gedau
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 04:15:16PM -0400, rickman wrote: > On 4/4/2011 11:44 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: >> A.Burinskiy wrote: >> >>> I did not saw satisfactory analog viewer for ngspice. Could you please >>> send me a link or project name? >> Over the years several waveform projects have been toss

Re: gEDA-user: Reinventing the wheel

2011-05-18 Thread gedau
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:24:53PM +0100, Thomas Oldbury wrote: >Is there a Python api for gEDA? I once made a GPMI plugin for PCB. Unfortunately it contains only a small set of interface libraries so what can be done was limited. I've written an SVG exporter prototype in tcl, an interactive

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop f?r gEDA

2011-08-06 Thread gedau
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:35:38PM -0700, yamazakir2 wrote: > Do you guys use your linux box for general desktop usage or only EDA? > I ask because I have tried many times to make the switch to linux for > general desktop usage but can't get over the inconvenience of it. I > have a linux box specif

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down?

2011-08-31 Thread gedau
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:56:27AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > Just FYI, turns out the place that hosts my secondary DNS was *also* > out for the hurricane. Not much I can do about that - my paranoia > only goes so far ;-) > I could host sec dns for the site in central Europe if that helps.

Re: gEDA-user: why some skip KiCAD and gEDA

2011-09-10 Thread gedau
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:03:14AM +0530, Abhijit Kshirsagar wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 04:42, Markus Hitter wrote: > > Am 10.09.2011 um 13:35 schrieb Stefan Salewski: > > > >> A lot of documentation can be bad. > > > > Ha! Now that's exactly the right answer to somebody offering writing > >

gEDA-user: [ig...@igor2.repo.hu: Re: Net of Selected Common Pins Enroutes Shortest Path Through All Intervening Pins]

2010-01-05 Thread gedau
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 10:08:15PM -0500, Stan Katz wrote: > >I use gEDA for small projects. One, and two sided boards only. It's >been fine up until now. I now have a transceiver chip with some pins, >a number of which I need to run to pin 1 on an IDE header. No matter >how I dra