Re: gEDA-dev: Roadmap for next release

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2-at-NOSPAMcam_dot_ac_dot_uk>]

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 09:53 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > Now that Peter C has merged his branch, what's the roadmap/schedule for the
> > next couple of releases?  Are there any major exciting features anyone's
> > working on?
> 
> I can't say I'm working on anything exciting.  I'm just gonna do bug
> fixing (spice-sdb) at the code sprint.  I am also slowly DOxygenating
> gattrib in anticipation of doing some code clean-up.
> 
> However, here are two things I think are important for new work:
> 
> 1.  Finish up gEDA project manager.  We dumped the old one, but don't
> have anything new.  Meanwhile, I continue to see people using the old
> project manager.

If you mean xgsch2pcb by gEDA project manager, then I'd like to remind
people of its limited useful scope. It is solely specific to the
gsch2pcb gschem->PCB workflow. Hopefully it presents a nice proof of
concept for that case. Its in Python, so it is not to hard to read and
extend.

A full gEDA project manager was a suggested SoC project. Did anyone take
up this idea, and would they be prepared to do it in spite not having it
accepted by Google.

> 2.  Modify/enhance gsch2pcb.  I see two enhancements:
>      1.  Make it output PCB actions, instead of a .pdf file.  Not all
>          the pieces are in place in PCB for this, but I received the
>          impression from Dan that we are close.
>      2.  Eliminate the separate projectrc file for gsch2pcb.  It seems
>          to cause too much confusion for newbies.  Better would be to
>          have it use gafrc.  The question then is:  How to specify the
>          location of the footprints, since this is a PCB (and not
>          gEDA/gaf) configuration?  Maybe embedd this functionality
>          into the project manager?

If you're outputting PCB actions, the location of footprints ought not
to matter. You could just put the name of the footprint desired into the
command file, and let PCB find them.

Regards,

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
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