Re: gEDA-user: wishful UI

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:14:58PM -0600, John Doty wrote:
> 
> On Aug 14, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Andrew Poelstra wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 03:17:42AM -0400, Paul Tan wrote:
> >> ...In fact, I would like to see that gEDA can process ANY attributes
> >> attached to a net in similar fashion as it process ANY attributes
> >> attached to a symbol currently.
> >> 
> > 
> > I agree, but I'm not sure this would be useful until we find a way
> > to split nets up into subnets - which is a much more complicated
> > change.
> 
> Not so much. We already draw nets as segments, and attributes are actually attached to segments, not nets. Might need to modify the segment merging rules, but that's about it. And one could argue that the automatic segment merging is already a case of the tool inappropriately trying to outsmart the user.
>

I see. We do do this in gschem - but not in pcb, nor in the .net file
coming out of gsch2pcb. So PCB would need a breaking change in its .net
and .pcb formats, no?

Andrew
 


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