Re: gEDA-user: text labels on symbols, DRY, colon cancer, and redundant, repetitive redundancy.

[Miles Gazic <miles.gazic@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > Would anyone be opposed to having the netlister assume a :1 for net=
> > attributes without a colon?
> There was a patch for this available, but it did not make it in the
> official code.

I would love it if I didn't need the :1 on netlist names.  Right now I
do not have :1 on my net names, and I have my makefile make a copy of
all my schematics, and run sed -i -e 's/^\(net=.*\)/\1:1/' on them to
add a :1.  It works okay, but it's annoying that there are duplicate
files created, and some makefile rules (creating a pdf or png) need to
use the original files, while others (DRC, making a netlist) need to
use the modified files.

- Miles

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 13:47 -0500, Mark Rages wrote:
> > In http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:scg, referring to the "device=" attribute:
> >
> > > This attribute should not be used as a label. Use a separate text object for the label.
> >
> > What is the reasoning behind this?  This is pointless redundancy.
> > And it makes using "light" symbols harder, because you need different
> > symbols for different device= attributes, or else there is no
> > schematic-visible way to differentiate between them.
> >
>
> True. I have replaced the plain text like "74HC04" in my symbols with
> attributes. I used value attribute. I did this for the reasons you
> mentioned above. I ask about it on this list -- no reply, so it may be
> OK.
>
> > Also, I notice that the power supply symbols have a separate text
> > label and hidden net= label with a ":1" appended.  In fact, it is
> > necesary to append a :1 to the end of any net= attribute.  This is
> > ugly.  And it makes the redundant text label necessary to avoid adding
> > the information-free ":1" onto the schematic.
> >
>
> I asked about this on the list too. Redundancy is indeed bad -- my
> decision is to make the net= a visible attribute. So the :1 for pin 1 is
> visible too -- not too ugly, but it may confuse other people.
>
> > Would anyone be opposed to having the netlister assume a :1 for net=
> > attributes without a colon?
>
> There was a patch for this available, but it did not make it in the
> official code.
>
>
>
>
>
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