gEDA-dev: State of the symbols library

[evan foss]

On 7/2/07, Werner Hoch <werner.ho at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Evan and all,
>
> On Sunday 01 July 2007 00:41, evan foss wrote:
> > It would seem many people adding symbols have
> > interest in drafting symbols only not maintaining them. Who ever did
> > the xilinx stuff for example did a wonderful job of drafting all the
> > chips with all of there pins but didn't define any of the pin
> > attributes properly (ex. pinseq=, pin=, pinnumber=, pinlabel=).
>
> > A large chunk can probably be done by fixing those gsymcheck issues
> > and say writing a few through away scripts to fix things like the
> > unnamed pins in the xilinx chips.
>
> Helper scripts can help, but you always have to take care of the result.
> Fixing sybmols is a time-consuming task, nevertheless.

That is what I was going to do in perl

> I've attached the two scripts I've used to fix some symbols. The file b
> is a shell script, it describes the workflow. The script nice_sym.py
> adds missing pinattributes and symbol attributes.
> The script doesn't support the current gschem file format (pin whichend
> and multiline text missing).

but if python works. Thank you.

> Regards
> Werner


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