gEDA-dev: GSoC 2008

[Bert Timmerman]

Hi Sven,

Will you please apply/register with GSoC 2008 __in time__ with whatever
project you choose :)

And did you have contact with your mentor for the IPC footprintgenerator
project, DJ would be a first choice for PCB.

I would not worry too much about a copy of the IPC specification for
now, we will find one when the need is there.

USD 100 used to be a lot of money for us Europeans, and that is some
time ago :)

I do not mind if you use pcb-fpw tarball as a starting point for your
project, it's GPL'ed free software after all.

Anyway for your GSoC project I suppose you probably will start from
scratch.

OTOH, I would be most willing to keep contributing to whatever is chosen
as a GUI-driven footprintwizard or generator to be included in the main
development of pcb.

Or "we" (the gEDA-pcb community) could decide to keep it a stand-alone
application which can communicate over IPC, or files, with pcb.

This would allow for a GTK based footprintwizard/generator to import
into a lesstiff based pcb HID or for a lesstiff based
footprintwizard/generator to import into a GTK based pcb HID.

You could always start with a lesstiff based footprintwizard to keep the
pcb turf count of HIDs in balance ;-)

Confused ? You won't be after your GSoC project is finished :-)

With kind regards,
Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Bert Timmerman


On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 20:23 +0100, Sven Lemke wrote:
> Hey Bert,
> 
> I am sorry, but I was not aware that you already started a project for a
> footprint "generator". ;) I think your tool is a very good start and I
> agree with you that an "editor" is not needed at the moment.
> 
> Do you have access to a copy of the IPC-7351 specifications? Otherwise I
> am willing to spend the $100 on it if I'm accepted for GSoC.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Sven
> 
> 
> Bert Timmerman wrote:
> 
> > Have a look at:
> > 
> > http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljh4timm/pcb-fpw.html
> > 
> > and see if this is what you have in mind :)
> > 
> > It's an ongoing work of me and is still pretty alpha (currently just
> > released version 20080328-0.0.4).
> > 
> > I'm thinking of opening a git repository somewhere, so other people can
> > participate in the fun.
> > 
> > The ultimate goal is get this attempt into a serious plug-in/importer
> > for pcb (using dbus for IPC to and from pcb).
> > 
> > One other thing: IMO this tool is not going to be a footprint editor for
> > existing footprints, it's supposed to become a tool to generate a
> > footprint on the fly and inserting the footprint into pcb the same way
> > "Load element data to paste buffer" does.
> > 
> > The CLI is there to batch process huge amounts of footprints.
> 
> 
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