Re: gEDA-user: multi-page hierarchy

[gene <carzrgr8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry Doolittle wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 05:13:45PM -0600, John Griessen wrote:
>> gene wrote:
>>>> When you lay out your board you get this fun issue that your refdes  
>>>> for a 0402 resistor is about 5 miles long.
>>> Really?  I haven't tried this yet - but are you saying the refdes gets 
>>> prefixed with the path?  It makes sense for the nets, but not the refdes.
>> The path in front is what makes each refdes unique and each refdes is the
>> whole path to a symbol.   If you present a simpler view it just means you
>> are hiding the complexity somewhere,
>> and at this point, gschem/gnetlist aren't hiding anything.
> 
> Right.  This is a prime example of the tools being expert-friendly.
> It's no sweat for someone like me to add a perl script to the
> processing chain to rename the resistors in a consistent and
> design-appropriate fashion.
> 
> I would even argue that this is a common enough task that one
> of us should generalize and publish our internal scripts so that
> non-programmers can also work like this.  Adding complexity
> to the existing tools, however, is probably a mistake.  At most,
> they should have hooks to handle pre/post processing programs.
> For myself, I will always use a Makefile for that purpose.
> 
>       - Larry
> 
So you write a script to massage the netlist?


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