gEDA-dev: New diagram (attempt at UML)

Dan McMahill dan at mcmahill.net
Sat Apr 7 22:03:52 EDT 2007


Ales Hvezda wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>Alternatively, we could extend the file-format slightly to allow
>>multiple pages per file (and make this the "official" way of defining a
>>"circuit").
> 
> 
> 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


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