gEDA-dev: Some gschem misfeatures noted this morning (10.5.2006)

[Peter Clifton]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 15:30 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote:
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> IMO, you could name the DBUS stuff "DBUS".   The normal stuff for
> xgsch2pcb (i.e. my little feature requests) should just go into a
> "main" branch.  Personallly I am a little wary about DBUS simply
> because it requires a later versino of GTK.  We can talk about that at
> great length in a different thread when I have time.  I'm not against
> it, but I do worry about distro compatability/install/support issues.
> Therefore, I tend to regard your non-DBUS stuff as the main branch.
> THat's my $0.02.
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The trouble is that the backend for the first work we did relied upon a
nasty hack in PCB. (Hence won't get into CVS unless we fix it lots). The
DBUS stuff is a more elegant IPC solution, and is a very neat patch to
PCB. I see DBUS being the future, so presumed to keep that in HEAD,
possibly branching off to maintain the old (proof of concept) code.

I will dig at a cvs tutorial to see how I can back out changes etc.. I
may get back to a state a day or so back and re-evaluate how it will
split.

What is the version of GTK you're using.. I will see if I can keep
things compatible if possible. 2.6 ought not be to hard, 2.4 might be
interesting.

Peter