Re: gEDA: bug in pcb-1.7.2a Gerber output, and patch

[Stefan Petersen <spe-at-NOSPAMstacken_dot_kth_dot_se>]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Larry Doolittle wrote:

> Thanks to Stefan Petersen and gerbv for helping me notice the error,
> before I wasted taxpayers money with free software :-( .

It feels really good to have saved American taxpayers money (still
remebering the signs I saw in CA "Taxpayers money at work") ;-) 
Just kidding, I'm really glad anyone uses my program and put their trust
in it.


> gerbv-0.0.6 still can't render the output of pcb-1.7.2a, even with
> this fix.  It needs to implement %LN and %LP first, so pcb can set
> positive and negative modes to draw cutouts in polygons.

Yepp, correctomundo...some minor experiments gave at hand that 1.6.x
generates aperture macros while 1.7.x do as you mention above instead. Why
so I don't know. I started today to look into aperture macros after some
christmas. We'll see if my ideas hold up against the hard reality called
"real code".

BTW I saw a freshmeat announce regarding PCB 1.6.3 the other day. Is that
a rerun or is there actually happening something?

Regards,
/spe
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