gEDA-dev: New diagram (attempt at UML)

[Peter Clifton]

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 09:53 -0700, Steve Meier wrote:
> My take on mutiple pages within one file is that it might conflict with
> re-usibility. What if I have a schamtic which is an element of several
> pages or even several different projects?
> 
> On the other hand what if as part of a project management resolution we
> tar or jar the files together? Would that occamplish the same thing?
> Would it have the same above issue?
> 
> Steve Meier

Some sort of archive is ok, but if this were for a whole design, you
still have to resolve the question of which schematic pages correspond
to what sub-circuit in the hierarchy.

I see your point about re-usability though, and not "necessarily"
wanting to encapsulate the pages within another file.

But - I don't see how encapsulating the pages of one "sub-circuit"
levels of hierarchy into a single file is too much of a problem. If
you're sub-circuit is suitably abstracted, it will be re-usable as is.
If not, you can still copy-paste components from it.


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