Re: gEDA-dev: File format version change...

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2-at-NOSPAMcam_dot_ac_dot_uk>]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 19:21 -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote:

> >... (There are various other things in "utils" which look like they
> >ought to be de-cluttered with a git rm command.)
> 
> 	Like what?

Perhaps I was mistaken.

I was thinking of scripts/gpstoimage when I wrote that. I was surprised
to see gEDA shipping image conversion utilities, and don't think I've
ever heard of anyone using it. Still.. its doing no harm.

scripts/mk_char_tab.pl also seemed redundant (until I dug further, and
noted that src/convert_sym.c and src/gmk_sym.c use a function defined in
the above script's generated src/char_width.c). This could, or should,
probably be changed.. (for a start, it assumes 256 / 257? (bug)? ASCII
characters). Unfortunately I've not got the bandwidth to look into it.

As a final observation, many of the conversion scripts in the utils
directory still have options to emit "old" format, with old attribute
names, and you see things hard-coded like:

BEGIN { 
  print "v 19981025";

...
}

Which suggest the utilities could do with a little bit of attention at
some point. (I'm not suggesting to "git rm" those, but they may need
some work).

-- 
Peter Clifton

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Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
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