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

[clif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I'm not sure we're on the same page here. That pice of legacy code is what 
we want to remove. We don't want any code to reinterpret attributes. For 
the short term we would like to change a few probramatic symbols so we 
don't have to have special cases in the code.

	Clif

> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:58:26 -0700
> From: John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: get-package-attribute sometimes returns "?" -
>       ID:     3114991
>
> 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 *$>
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd@xxxxxxxxx



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