Re: gEDA-user: wishful UI

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 18:57 -0400, Paul Tan wrote:
> Hi Andrew Poelstra,
> 
> On Aug 14, 2010; 10:34am, Andrew Poelstra wrote:
> 
> >Otherwise, certain nets (such as power or ground nets), which often
> >have vastly different characteristics in different sections, would
> >be difficult to describe.
> 
> If the "split nets" means BUS, such as "addrBus[63:0]" which
> can be split into "addrBus[12:0]", "addrBus[15]", etc; or even
> the notion of Compound BUS such as "addrBus[63:0],ALE,CTRL",
> it can all be done with the backend scheme code. It really
> depends on the particular backend netlister implementation.
> 

I think he cares about touching net segments, same as I, see for example

http://ssalewski.de/gEDA-Netclass.html.en

the Power and Bypass segment.

I think John Doty got it:

>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.

>John Doty



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