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Re: gEDA-user: Life and death for gEDA: portability...



Hi, Carlos.

Carlos Nieves Onega wrote:

Hi Bill,
If you use spice format for interfacing between gnetman and gnetlist,
you will be able to say something like "R1 is connected between node 2
and 0" (for example), but you can't say "pin 1 of U1, which is an input
port, is connected to node 2". You can't add attributes to the devices
(or pins) using the spice format (correct me if I'm wrong), so backends
using that stuff (like DRC, for example) will be broken....

Happy new year to all people,

Carlos

True. This is one of the main reasons I'm leaning towards generating a dummy flat .sch file for the connection. I've only got one real concern about the path of going from schematics to a flat schematic through gnetman: Can gnetlist handle huge flat schematics? I don't mean enough stuff to run out of memory, but are there any N^2 kind of loops in it, rather than linear and N*logN?

If gnetlist can handle very large flat schematics without slowing down painfully, I'll go ahead and write the dummy flat .sch files. Does anyone know?

Thanks,
Bill