Re: gEDA: debian packages update

[Dan McMahill <dan-at-NOSPAMmcmahill_dot_net>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:45:00PM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> Hamish -
> 
> > > BTW, the debian description (at least for the previous release) is a tad 
> > > out of date:
> > > 
> > > Description: Printed Circuit Board Design Program
> > >  Pcb is a handy tool for the X Window System build to design
> > >  printed circuit boards. All coordinate units are 1/1000 inch.
> > >  For details see the manual.
> > > 
> > > Is that one of the things you changed?
> > 
> > No. Can you provide a better description?
> 
> Here's my three-minute attempt:
> 
> Description: Printed Circuit Board Design Program
>  Pcb is a handy tool to design printed circuit boards.  All coordinate
>  units are 1/100000 inch.  It has a large library of part footprints,
>  can handle multi-layer boards, and can check the layout for consistency
>  with design rules and against netlists provided by (separate) schematic
>  entry software.  For details see the manual.
> 
 
I'd drop the "units are 1/100000 inch".  That seems more like a pcb
manual question not the answer to "what is pcb".

-Dan


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