Re: gEDA-dev: some suggestions

[Stuart Brorson <sdb-at-NOSPAMcloud9_dot_net>]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Carlos Nieves Ónega wrote:
> I like Peter's suggestion about formatting the comments in the gschemrc
> file so a geda-config program would be able to present the user the
> options in a nice and simple way. That way there is no need to change
> geda-config every time the developers add something to the
> system-gschemrc file (something usual, so it's worth to think about
> this).

Yes, that's one way to do it.  Perhaps I mispoke, or was
mis-interpreted, but my point is that the current format -- just a
bunch of scheme sets with comments explaining what is going on -- is
perfectly fine for an RC file.  Making it hierarchical seems to me
to add too much structure to something which is basically simple.  The
RC files are only a couple hundered lines of ASCII text anyway; grep
and searching in your favorite text editor are the best ways to deal
with them.

My point was that using comments effectively is the best way to let
users know what the structure of the file is, not building in some
computer-parsable hierarchy.

Better to add hierarchy to gschem and gnetlist, IMO!

I'll drop out of this thread now since I've got to work.....

Stuart


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