Re: gEDA-user: Make-sure-internal-order-of-symbols-is-not-relevant-.patch

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:53:04 -0600, John Doty wrote:

>> NETLIST to GList and back.
> 
> Ugh.
> 
> Wrong layer. Massive, unnecessary complexity that only

A single while loop is no massive complexity. Anyway, this part of the 
patch will go away when the rest of gnetlist gets rid of the 
depreacheated NETLIST type in favor of standard GList. 


> But simply let the back end see all the data, and the whole thing
> becomes easy without limiting flexibility.

The bug this is all about, resides in the front-end. (Internal order of 
multi-part symbols  matters for the output of the front-end). Fixing it 
in the back-ends would be a work-around at best. The fix would have to be 
applied to each and every affected back-end. In addition, the necessity 
to catch this ambiguity  would be a  trap for developers of future back-
ends.

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