Re: gEDA: xnf-gschem 20000416

[Stephen Williams <steve-at-NOSPAMicarus_dot_com>]

ahvezda@seul.org said:
> That's fine with me to keep it's separate (after all it is your code).
>  However, if it gets integrated it into gnetlist and the standard
> symbol library, I will maintain the symbols and scheme code for any
> major changes (such as format changes and/or attribute additions).

Uh, that's OK with me, but although there are only 6 symbols in the
library now, I expect it to continuously grow to 300+ symbols. We're
talking about doing real work here.

And in the long run, this won't be the only design library to be like
this. What if someone else desides to do the same job for Lucent or
Altera FPGAs? It won't be long before you are facing a bunch of distinct
libraries that total thousands of symbols.

I (and a colleague of mine) are offering to take some of the maintenance
load off your hands, and the tools that support such a distribution of
labor include a way to install libraries without editing configuration
files. (Installers cannot reliably edit configuration files. I've tried,
it doesn't work.)

The means to upgrade gnetlist, namely drop the gnet-XXX.scm file in the
right directory, is totally perfect. If only integrating libraries were
so smooth.

ahvezda@seul.org said:
> In obuf-1.sym the device is a previously attached attribute that was
> detached (it's detached and red), make it green or yellow.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll fix these items. And I have some comments
back:-) ...

Puh-leese, add a way to set colors on text items and attributes. I'm facing
drawing hundreds of symbols (with some help from co-workers) and writing
them out and hand editing the .sym file to find the right number and set
a color just to fix occasional goofs such as those seems a tad intimidating.

I guess in this case I can just delete these attribute and re-create them
in the default green.  But...

In case you're wondering, I'm trying to get gschem and Icarus Verilog
together worked up to the point where I can hand a small set of RPMS
to some Xilinx designer and expect some productive work out of him/her/it,
and that includes writing symbols.

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