gEDA-dev: Notes for the points I wanted to raise at the FreeDog meeting

[Peter TB Brett]

On Monday 12 November 2007 23:57:17 Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:31 -0500, Paul Tan wrote:
>
> > In small projects, embedding (as defined currently in gEDA)
> > may work well. However, for larger project, IMHO, it may
> > not work well at all.  It may not be a fair analogy,
> > but just to illustrate a point: imagine, in a software
> > project, all functions are inline functions, ....., etc.
> > The gEDA gafrc's (component-library ..)s are similar to the
> > <xxxx.h>s, imagine if <xxxx.h>s are not used in a C/C++
> > project...
>
>
> Peter B's suggestion to allow the option of embedding a named /
> referable single instance of some dependancy (symbol / graphic etc..)
> proposed to address this, but seemed to be met with some resistance to
> change from the current embedding scheme. It may have been that more
> opposition was felt to the output sorting / hashing of embedded data to
> make it more easily comparable to the main library.


This sorting/hashing has now been dropped, because it became evident that it 
wasn't the Right Way to do things.

On the bright side, we've got something out of the effort, in that I'll soon 
be pushing a patch which will make it possible to "save" schematics/symbols 
to memory buffers as well as simply to files.

                                    Peter


-- 
Peter Brett

Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd
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