Re: gEDA-dev: New diagram (attempt at UML)

["evan foss" <evanfoss-at-NOSPAMgmail_dot_com>]

> >
> > gEDA/gaf was intentionally designed to have a one-to-one relationship
> > between schematic pages and files.  This allowed all sorts of easy and
> > interesting post processing (read: shell script, perl, etc...) to occur
> > on a individual schematic page.  Changing or even augmenting this core
> > assumption should be done with care.
> >
> > -Ales
> >
>
> I'm way behind on this thread, but for the record, I'm fairly strongly
> opposed to having multiple pages per file if these multiple pages are
> different hierarchy levels.  If is is a flat multiple pages per a file,
> than I'm not so sure.
>
> -Dan

I don't pretend to be a netlist wizard but I imagine that multipage
sch files would complicate the heck out of netlist generation. Even if
it doesn't this wouldn't effect that why complicate the files if you
don't have to. If you are doing multipage schematics you will likely
want to re-use pages across projects. Putting multiple pages in one
file makes a mess of moving pages across projects. Right now it would
just be a matter of copying each pages file. If you want to bind the
pages together there should be a way to do that with the spice/gnucap
models, PCB file(s) and etc. It would be bad to merge all this into
the file. That should just be putting all this in one directory and
compressing it. Why get complex if you don't have to.

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