Re: gEDA-user: What is wrong

[Steven Michalske <smichalske@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think that pcb should look for a part with the refdes U1a first  
before dropping the a to match U1.

it should also spit out a little blurb about what it did.

that way when someone does name a part Tm and wants it to be called   
Tm, pcb sees that part Tm exists and that no part T exists.

we could also issue a warning if parts T and Tm exist; I don't believe  
that it's required though.

just a thought,  this has bitten a few people.

Steve

On Jan 20, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:40:28 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
>
>> PCB drops any lower case suffixes on refdes. That might be documented
>> somewhere, but I'm not sure where
>
> It should be considered a bug to be fixed. I had pcb crash on me  
> because
> of this. This is a major newbie trap. Either gsch2pcb should  
> complain and
> issue a big, fat warning, or pcb should handle all kinds of names
> decently.
>
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