X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-TCPREMOTEIP: 173.48.170.224 X-Authenticated-UID: jpd AT noqsi DOT com From: John Doty Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_743868B9-D4B6-4F7E-AD28-54A7F509DD6F" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Subject: Re: [geda-user] Refdes bug or Master Attribute Document on the Wiki needs update. Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:21:19 -0500 References: <9ed059c0-f3c5-1482-169b-f8f1119f3208 AT fastmail DOT com> <5BC4365D-FBD0-4495-806B-C30BA710D31B AT noqsi DOT com> To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <04CF994F-257E-40AF-87A6-8673C3BA4908@noqsi.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk --Apple-Mail=_743868B9-D4B6-4F7E-AD28-54A7F509DD6F Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On Jan 30, 2019, at 1:35 PM, Roland Lutz wrote: >=20 > On Wed, 30 Jan 2019, John Doty wrote: >> Remember, pcb existed before gEDA, and Ales designed gEDA to support = *any* downstream flow, not just pcb. This is a place where core gEDA = conventions don=E2=80=99t quite match the conventions of the downstream = tool. >=20 > Do you think it would be helpful to allow custom slot names (as = opposed to slot=3D1, slot=3D2 etc.)? Might be. >=20 > Is there anything that depends on slot names being sequential = integers? Probably drc2. Maybe spice-sdb. Perhaps the most common use case that works, but uncomfortably, is the = slotted component with separate power symbol. Kai-Martin has published = lots of symbols for these. The difficulty of finding blunders through = all of drc2=E2=80=99s upset with this caused me to write = gnet-check-duplicates.scm and gnet-check-pincount.scm (published on = gedasymbols). Together, these are more effective at finding the kinds of = blunders I make, while avoiding chatter about non-problems, than drc2 = is. =E2=80=9CYour mileage may vary=E2=80=9D ;-) John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. jpd AT noqsi DOT com --Apple-Mail=_743868B9-D4B6-4F7E-AD28-54A7F509DD6F Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
On Jan 30, 2019, at 1:35 PM, Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org> = wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jan 2019, John Doty wrote:
Remember, pcb existed before gEDA, and Ales = designed gEDA to support *any* downstream flow, not just pcb. This is a = place where core gEDA conventions don=E2=80=99t quite match the = conventions of the downstream tool.

Do you think it would be helpful to allow custom slot names = (as opposed to slot=3D1, slot=3D2 etc.)?

Might = be.


Is there anything that depends = on slot names being sequential integers?

Probably = drc2. Maybe spice-sdb.

Perhaps the = most common use case that works, but uncomfortably, is the slotted = component with separate power symbol. Kai-Martin has published lots of = symbols for these. The difficulty of finding blunders through all of = drc2=E2=80=99s upset with this caused me to = write gnet-check-duplicates.scm and gnet-check-pincount.scm = (published on gedasymbols). Together, these are more effective at = finding the kinds of blunders I make, while avoiding chatter about = non-problems, than drc2 is. =E2=80=9CYour mileage may vary=E2=80=9D = ;-)

John Doty    =           Noqsi = Aerospace, Ltd.

jpd AT noqsi DOT com




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