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

[Peter TB Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> In any case, it seems to me that the user should get an error message
> (from spice-sdb) in this case, as an explicit "?" here means that the
> user has neither set the attribute to something useful nor deleted it as
> irrelevant.

So what you are saying is that you think we should get rid of the "WTF?" function in the code, but not modify the symbol library?

                Peter

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Peter Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Remote Sensing Research Group
Surrey Space Centre
----- Original message -----
> 
> On Dec 16, 2010, at 9:29 PM, clif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> But the "?" is there to tell you, when looking at the symbol in gschem,
> that you *need* to edit the attribute (I use those symbols a lot).
> 
> I'm puzzled here, because I thought Stuart was the author of both
> spice-sdb and the symbols in question, so the "WTF?" is strange.
> 
> 
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
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