ToDo

These lists are meant to provide developers a reminder of undone projects. It is also a wish list capturing user’s desires for new features. New developers can also look here for projects which they might be interested in working on.

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• TBD

• Libgeda:
  • Enable handling of .sch files with symbols having some (but not all) pins promoted onto the .sch file. This will enable pin-swapping via backannotation from PCB
  • Merge per-page netlisting from gnetlist (or re-write if necessary).
  • Make postscript output more friendly to the LaTeX package “pstricks”.
    • Use the “show” command to display a whole string at once instead of rendering character by character.
    • Might not be possible / simple as the current approach is due to the overbar drawing postscript.
• Gschem:
  • Enable hierarchical bus support.
  • Make gschemrc variables settable from within gschem using a “settings” pull-down menu item (new).
  • Improve symbol library to handle very large symbol collections better
  • Now the SELECTION is a GedaList and we can get “changed” signals, make more dialogs non-modal:
    • Single attribute editor
    • Text properties
    • Line width and type
    • Fill type
    • Edit slot
    • Edit color
    • Text size (Sets size for new text, so doesn’t rely on the selection anyway)
  • Enable --help flag. (Currently supports -h only). Consider using GTK’s mechanism for this.
  • Support for embedding LaTeX maths to be rendered in text.
    • This could be output only, or preview bitmaps could be generated and cached by calling LaTeX, dvips and ps2epsi.
    • Would we add a new type of object for this, or allow attaching a “latex=1” attribute to the text object its self?
• Gnetlist:
  • Enable --help flag. Do other gEDA/gaf programs recognize this flag?
• Gattrib:
  • Make it export CSV to support BOM generation.
  • Get printing working.
  • Enable attachment of attributes to nets.
  • Consider using GTK’s mechanism to display --help flag text.
• Garchive:
  • Incorporate guile so that it reads RC files using the same mechanism as the rest of gEDA/gaf.
• CD Installer:
  • Change it so that the user is presented a pick-list at the beginning of the install, instead of blindly installing everything.
• Refdes_renum:
  • Doesn’t currently work properly with slotted parts (it gives new refdes numbers to slotted parts). Fix it so it recognizes slotted parts and assigns refdes appropriately.
  • Provide --gentle option, which doesn’t clobber (overwrite) any refdeses which are already assigned.

• Develop scheme for backward annotation of changes from PCB to gschem. Requires modifications to libgeda to support, e.g. pin promotion from .sym file to .sch file (enabling pin swapping).
• Create a Gerber → .pcb conversion tool. Result is metal layer or footprint editable by PCB. This might be a Perl script.
• Implement lockfiles between gattrib and gschem.

• Remove use of non GList linked lists. This is very invasive work, but allows much code cleanup where mixtures of the old and GList methods were available.
• Remove unused variables and functions from various structures. Unused may also include “used”, but ineffective.
• Remove back-exports to libgeda of global function pointers from gschem and other libgeda “clients”. These aren’t portable.
• Clean up / produce generic API interfaces to act on an object of any type, or lists of objects.
• Convert functions used within one ".c” file, and not useful for public API into static functions, removing from prototype.h.