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  29 <ul class="toc">
  30 <li class="level1"><div class="li"><span class="li"><a href="#todo" class="toc">ToDo</a></span></div>
  31 <ul class="toc">
  32 <li class="level2"><div class="li"><span class="li"><a href="#things_to_be_done_before_the_next_release" class="toc">Things to be done before the next release</a></span></div></li>
  33 <li class="level2"><div class="li"><span class="li"><a href="#longer_term_upgrades_desired_for_specific_tools" class="toc">Longer term upgrades desired for specific tools</a></span></div></li>
  34 <li class="level2"><div class="li"><span class="li"><a href="#ideas_for_new_tools_or_geda_suite-wide_enhancements" class="toc">Ideas for new tools or gEDA Suite-wide enhancements</a></span></div></li>
  35 <li class="level2"><div class="li"><span class="li"><a href="#code_cleanup_and_refactoring" class="toc">Code cleanup and refactoring</a></span></div></li></ul>
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  42 <h1><a name="todo" id="todo">ToDo</a></h1>
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  45 <p>
  46 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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  49 <p>
  50 See <a href="http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:tasks" class="wikilink1" title="geda:tasks">tasks</a> for non-programmer tasks.
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  55 <h2><a name="things_to_be_done_before_the_next_release" id="things_to_be_done_before_the_next_release">Things to be done before the next release</a></h2>
  56 <div class="level2">
  57 <ul>
  58 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> TBD</div>
  59 </li>
  60 </ul>
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  63 <!-- SECTION "Things to be done before the next release" [299-362] -->
  64 <h2><a name="longer_term_upgrades_desired_for_specific_tools" id="longer_term_upgrades_desired_for_specific_tools">Longer term upgrades desired for specific tools</a></h2>
  65 <div class="level2">
  66 <ul>
  67 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <strong>Libgeda</strong>:</div>
  68 <ul>
  69 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> 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</div>
  70 </li>
  71 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> Merge per-page netlisting from gnetlist (or re-write if necessary).</div>
  72 </li>
  73 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> Make postscript output more friendly to the LaTeX package “pstricks”.</div>
  74 <ul>
  75 <li class="level3"><div class="li"> Use the “show” command to display a whole string at once instead of rendering character by character.</div>
  76 </li>
  77 <li class="level3"><div class="li"> Might not be possible / simple as the current approach is due to the overbar drawing postscript.</div>
  78 </li>
  79 </ul>
  80 </li>
  81 </ul>
  82 </li>
  83 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <strong>Gschem</strong>:</div>
  84 <ul>
  85 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> Enable hierarchical bus support.</div>
  86 </li>
  87 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> Make gschemrc variables settable from within gschem using a “settings” pull-down menu item (new).</div>
  88 </li>
  89 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> Improve symbol library to handle very large symbol collections better</div>
  90 </li>
  91 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> Now the SELECTION is a GedaList and we can get “changed” signals, make more dialogs non-modal:</div>
  92 <ul>
  93 <li class="level3"><div class="li"> Single attribute editor</div>
  94 </li>
  95 <li class="level3"><div class="li"> Text properties</div>
  96 </li>
  97 <li class="level3"><div class="li"> Line width and type</div>
  98 </li>
  99 <li class="level3"><div class="li"> Fill type</div>
 100 </li>
 101 <li class="level3"><div class="li"> Edit slot</div>
 102 </li>
 103 <li class="level3"><div class="li"> Edit color</div>
 104 </li>
 105 <li class="level3"><div class="li"> Text size (Sets size for new text, so doesn’t rely on the selection anyway)</div>
 106 </li>
 107 </ul>
 108 </li>
 109 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> Enable <strong><code>-</code><code>-</code>help</strong> flag. (Currently supports -h only). Consider using GTK’s mechanism for this.</div>
 110 </li>
 111 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> Support for embedding LaTeX maths to be rendered in text.</div>
 112 <ul>
 113 <li class="level3"><div class="li"> This could be output only, or preview bitmaps could be generated and cached by calling LaTeX, dvips and ps2epsi.</div>
 114 </li>
 115 <li class="level3"><div class="li"> Would we add a new type of object for this, or allow attaching a “latex=1” attribute to the text object its self?</div>
 116 </li>
 117 </ul>
 118 </li>
 119 </ul>
 120 </li>
 121 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <strong>Gnetlist</strong>:</div>
 122 <ul>
 123 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> Enable <strong><code>-</code><code>-</code>help</strong> flag. Do other gEDA/gaf programs recognize this flag?</div>
 124 </li>
 125 </ul>
 126 </li>
 127 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <strong>Gattrib</strong>:</div>
 128 <ul>
 129 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> Make it export CSV to support BOM generation.</div>
 130 </li>
 131 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> Get printing working.</div>
 132 </li>
 133 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> Enable attachment of attributes to nets.</div>
 134 </li>
 135 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> Consider using GTK’s mechanism to display <strong><code>-</code><code>-</code>help</strong> flag text.</div>
 136 </li>
 137 </ul>
 138 </li>
 139 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <strong>Garchive</strong>:</div>
 140 <ul>
 141 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> Incorporate guile so that it reads RC files using the same mechanism as the rest of gEDA/gaf.</div>
 142 </li>
 143 </ul>
 144 </li>
 145 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <strong>CD Installer</strong>:</div>
 146 <ul>
 147 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> Change it so that the user is presented a pick-list at the beginning of the install, instead of blindly installing everything.</div>
 148 </li>
 149 </ul>
 150 </li>
 151 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <strong>Refdes_renum</strong>:</div>
 152 <ul>
 153 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> 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.</div>
 154 </li>
 155 <li class="level2"><div class="li"> Provide <strong><code>-</code><code>-</code>gentle</strong> option, which doesn’t clobber (overwrite) any refdeses which are already assigned.</div>
 156 </li>
 157 </ul>
 158 </li>
 159 </ul>
 160
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 162 <!-- SECTION "Longer term upgrades desired for specific tools" [363-2872] -->
 163 <h2><a name="ideas_for_new_tools_or_geda_suite-wide_enhancements" id="ideas_for_new_tools_or_geda_suite-wide_enhancements">Ideas for new tools or gEDA Suite-wide enhancements</a></h2>
 164 <div class="level2">
 165 <ul>
 166 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> 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).</div>
 167 </li>
 168 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Create a Gerber → .pcb conversion tool. Result is metal layer or footprint editable by PCB. This might be a <acronym title="Practical Extraction and Report Language">Perl</acronym> script.</div>
 169 </li>
 170 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Implement lockfiles between gattrib and gschem.</div>
 171 </li>
 172 </ul>
 173
 174 </div>
 175 <!-- SECTION "Ideas for new tools or gEDA Suite-wide enhancements" [2873-3309] -->
 176 <h2><a name="code_cleanup_and_refactoring" id="code_cleanup_and_refactoring">Code cleanup and refactoring</a></h2>
 177 <div class="level2">
 178 <ul>
 179 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> 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.</div>
 180 </li>
 181 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Remove unused variables and functions from various structures. Unused may also include “used”, but ineffective.</div>
 182 </li>
 183 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Remove back-exports to libgeda of global function pointers from gschem and other libgeda “clients”. These aren’t portable.</div>
 184 </li>
 185 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Clean up / produce generic <acronym title="Application Programming Interface">API</acronym> interfaces to act on an object of any type, or lists of objects.</div>
 186 </li>
 187 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Convert functions used within one &quot;.c” file, and not useful for public <acronym title="Application Programming Interface">API</acronym> into static functions, removing from prototype.h.</div>
 188 </li>
 189 </ul>
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