gEDA-dev: Improvements to the gEDA suite for educational use

[steve tell]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, DJ Delorie wrote:

>
>> We have two or three students (including myself) intending to
>> contribute software development over the summer vacation to improve
>> the usability and integration of the suite.
>
> Yay and thanks!  Please feel free to ask questions here, this is our
> equivalent of a "chat room" for developers.
>
>> libraries, DRC rules, drill mappings etc.. are all appropriate for
>> the
>
> Note that PCB uses a "vendor file" that has some of this information
> in it; managing that would be useful.

Is the vendor-file format documented, or could someone add an example to 
CVS?
I tried to puzzle it out from the source while doing a board recently, but
didn't make much headway.
(I eventually hand-edited my design file to adjust my drill holes to the 
standard vendor list.)

Other than that, gtk-pcb from cvs worked nicely; thanks everybody!

Steve