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On Dec 8, 2015, at 6:15 PM, Edward Hennessy (ehennes AT sbcglobal DOT net) [via =
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

>=20
>> On Dec 8, 2015, at 12:19 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>>=20
>> Hence, my position that something other than refdes is needed to
>> identify "this symbol" or "that gate".  Tracking the lifetime of a
>> symbol so you can refer to "the one I used back when" is the trick
>> part I was asking about.
>>=20
>> If we really want to cleanly support simple operations like "rename a
>> part" we need to change gaf's dependency on the name identifying "the
>> part", and start treating the refdes like any other generic =
attribute.
>=20
> Perhaps gschem could assign an artificial or surrogate key to the =
symbol and store it in an attribute.

And then what happens when you make a copy?

>=20
> Ed
>=20

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