gEDA-dev: State of the symbols library

[evan foss]

On 6/30/07, Ales Hvezda <ahvezda at moria.seul.org> wrote:
> [snip]
> >If you look at the this page you find basically the same bad news.
> >http://www.geda.seul.org/tools/symbols/library/index.html
>
>         I'm going to delete this page and the underlying pages somehow.
> They do not serve a purpose anymore.

Why would you do that it just needs to be updated. Having a visible
list of errors and warnings is a good way for the people who submitted
them to get feedback.

> [snip]
> >By the way has anyone tried the automated symbol submission thing here.
> [url censored]
> >I tried it several years ago and it didn't work.
>
>         * I get steady contributions of symbols via this mechanism.
>
>         * The contributed symbols do not automatically go into the
>           symbol library.
>
>         * I have been resisting putting them into the library because
>           the vast majority are heavy symbols and well, the arguments
>           against heavy symbols is well known and has been discussed
>           to death.

I wasn't trying to add heavy symbols. I put a tar.gz file into that
thing with a collection of light symbols that all gave no errors
unlike many of the ones in the library and they just got dropped. If
you don't find what people submit unusable you should tell them why.
Just accepting symbols and then sitting on them is only aggravating
those of us who want to contribute.

>         * As I've mentioned before, I'm going to move the entire existing
>           library into a "contrib" library and then create a controlled
>           set of "std" library which just consists of light symbols for
>           the most critical things.
>
>         * After this move, I will toss all the contributed symbols via
>           the above mechanism into the contrib library.
>

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