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Date: | Fri, 11 Sep 2015 22:55:58 +0200 |
From: | "Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: [geda-user] About reinventing the wheel, and how to avoid it |
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On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:38:03 -0400 DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote: > > > Even though you have to remember attributes and values yourself it > > is not just arbitrary text. For already defined attributes it would > > have been nice with a list to choose from and for each attribute a > > list of predefined values to chose from where appropriate. > > It's not "just arbitrary" because some other tool (typically gnetlist > for gschem) interprets the values. But as far as gschem itself is > concerned, aside from a few convenience pulldowns that provide > commonly used defaults, the text really is just arbitrary. > > If you were using gschem with something other than gnetlist, which had > a different interpretation of the text, it would still not be "just > arbitrary" to that other something, but not because gschem itself gave > it any meaning. > > Thus, my position that adding arbitrary text *in gschem* is not > difficult. > > The task is more difficult in something like pcb because the > attributes have meaning *to pcb*, and pcb usually has to interpret > them in realtime as the user is editing. It's the meaning that causes > the difficulty, not the attribute storage itself. The realitime > requirement often dictates a non-"arbitrary" internal storage as well. > > (this is similar to the XML "problem" - XML defines a structure for > storing information, but doesn't give any meaning to the information, > leading to lots of incompatible implementations) I agree.
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