Re: gEDA-user: get-package-attribute sometimes returns "?" - ID: 3114991

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 16, 2010, at 7:44 PM, clif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> Did you see my initial post on this?

Yes.

> 
> The only pice of code that currently deals with the "?" is this one:
> 
> ;; sometimes get-package-attribute returns "?" instead of "unknown".  WTF?  This should fix that . . .
>          (if (string-ci=? model-file "?")
>              (set! model-file "unknown"))
> --
> 
> We're just trying to move toword a more uniform way of handling it.

But that's not uniform. In this case, attribute value is explicitly set to "?" in the symbol. Now, when an attribute value is *explicitly* set by the schematic or symbol designer, there shouldn't be anything in the common code that changes it. Making special cases like this is a move *away* from uniform handling of attributes.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd@xxxxxxxxx




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