# 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.

## Things to be done before the next release

- Gschem:
  - Fix postscript output.

## Longer term upgrades desired for specific tools

- 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.
- Gschem:
  - Enable hierarchical bus support.
  - Make gschemrc variables settable from within gschem using a “settings” pull-down menu item (new).
  - Make gschem start up with a reasonable zoom, not zoomed waaaaay out.
  - Improve symbol library to handle very large symbol collections better
- 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.
- 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.

## Ideas for new tools or gEDA Suite-wide enhancements

- 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.