Re: gEDA-user: finding shorts with gschem

[David Griffith <dgriffi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Stuart Brorson wrote:

> > Right, but there was the bizarre effect of some object containing
> > net=Vcc:? and net=Vdd:? somewhere, but disappearing when the Vcc and Vdd
> > symbols were not used.  That made me suspect there's a problem in the
> > interpretation of the symbol files, not in the symbols themselves.
>
> Naw, the net=VDD:?? is bad syntax in the .sym file.  It doesn't call
> out the pinnumber to which to attach VDD.  The netlister is probably
> being confused by this, and is then attaching VDD to something random.

I'm sorry.  I thought "??" was understood as a placeholder for a
pinnumber.  That string didn't actually appear.

> > Ah...  So perhaps I should ask for write access to the CVS to go through
> > and fix this?  There are loads of other goofs I keep stumbling over in the
> > standard symbol set, which is part of the reason why I started making my
> > own.
>
> Right now the best thing to do is submit patches to SF.net, or get
> your own git repo and then start making your corrections there &
> notifying geda-devel about what's there.  Then one of the more active
> developers could look at your stuff and pull your updates out of
> there.

Hmm, time to read up on git.

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