Hi Peter,Ok so we toss current patch in 3114991. Should I make a new one that replaces all the "?" in symbols / blocks with "unknown"?
If spice-sdb should choke on any remaining "?" it runs across, then I guess my second patch (3117075) is good to go.
It seems that another example of attribute placeholders is the footprint=none convention. The zero-length values feature might allow us to clean up other special cases as well.
Ciao, Clif
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:33:39 +0000 From: Peter TB Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: get-package-attribute sometimes returns "?" - Clif wrote:To fix it in a uniform way I think we need to standardise what we use as a place holder for an attribute. Sould we explicitly put"unknown"? or "?"? Unfortunitly gschem won't let you put a null
string.
Hi Clif,
Since at the moment gnetlist internally uses the string "unknown" to
indicate a missing attribute, so that would be the logical choice to use
instead of "?" at this time.
In the longer term, I would actually quite like it to be legal to have
attributes with zero-length values. However, that would obviously be a
more complicated patch.
I think that the spice-sdb backend should continue to choke on "blah=?"
attributes, for now.
Regards,
Peter
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Remote Sensing Research Group
Surrey Space Centre
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