gEDA-dev: Draft: Creating and maintaining a spice model library

[Werner Hoch]

Hi Peter,

On Sonntag, 4. November 2007, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> On Sunday 04 November 2007 10:57:26 Werner Hoch wrote:
> > I've play with the component-library-command backend of libgeda.
> > I'm posting the code later. It's currently a little bit messy ;-)
>
> Looks awesome.  I've been hoping someone would pick up these new
> features and run with them.
>
> Did you find the documentation?  How could it be improved?  

Mmhh, well. I've read the source. Should I look at a different place?

> Are there any particular enhancements to the functionality which are 
needed?

I'm fine with the current functionality but I noticed some other things.

1. I'm currently adding an file= attribute to the symbols, and they use 
an absolut path. I'm wondering how to archive the symbols together with 
the model files.
A possible solution is to add only relative pathnames to the symbol and 
let the netlister add a $spicelibrary_pathprefix.

2. Copying of my generated symbols is slow in gschem. If I place 100 
symbols and create a copy, it currently takes quite long (about 20s).


Current progress, the output is colored now:
http://www.h-renrew.de/h/misc/nxp/bipolar/index.html
(note that quite a lot of the links won't work)

Regards
Werner