Re: gEDA-dev: [PATCH] GAF: Solve the "transistor problem"

[DJ Delorie <dj-at-NOSPAMdelorie_dot_com>]

> That's the hard way.

So?  We're designing electronics, not painting pictures.

> The easy way is to copy the symbol to your project's symbol
> directory with a new name, fix it up, leaving the pins where they
> are, and then change the symbol name in the sch file with an
> editor. Not hard at all. Maybe a little GUI magic over this kind of
> process would help newbies, though.

He's trying to do the gui magic :-)

Me, I'd much rather have the pictoral symbol separate from the
connectivity information.  We already split out the footprint, and
it's way too much "heavy symbolism" to say we should have one symbol
per package.

> This seems to represent a specific vision of how gEDA is to be used.  

Or at least how it *can* be used.  Today, nothing stops you from
creating a heavy symbol library, but the technology stops you from
creating a light symbol library.  Let's fix that so we can do both.


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