gEDA-dev: Project Manager

[Peter TB Brett]

On Saturday 29 March 2008 20:18:47 al davis wrote:
> On Saturday 29 March 2008 14:41, Newell Jensen wrote:
> > Just curious, but how many people use xgsch2pcb presently?  I am
> > interested in hearing your reasons for either using it or not using
> > it.
>
> Just adding a graphic wrapper around one tool doesn't give me anything.
> By adding a few buttons to push, usually in a routine, it makes the
> interface worse.  This is what I mean by "kick me".  I need to kick it
> to keep it going.
>
> A project manager needs to take care of that automatically, without
> being kicked.  I want to have a schematic, layout, and simulation,
> smoothly without explicitly asking for every step of the conversion.
> It's fine if there are several tools under the hood, but the user
> should not need to kick it for every step and every choice.
>

You clearly haven't used xgsch2pcb, have you?

With a Makefile, in order to update your PCB, you have to:
- Save in gschem
- Switch to PCB
- Save in PCB
- Switch to a terminal
- Run make
- Switch to PCB
- Revert to saved in PCB
- Load new components to buffer
- Place new component buffer
- Execute command file

With xgsch2pcb, in order to update your PCB, you have to:
- Save in gschem
- Switch to xgsch2pcb
- xgsch2pcb will detect the change and ask you if you want to update your PCB,
  so click "Update"
- Switch to PCB


In my experience, xgsch2pcb has significant *advantages* in terms of "kick 
me".

Just my £0.02.

                                Peter


-- 
Peter Brett

Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd
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