Re: gEDA-user: gschem: net attribute for power I/O, clean appearance? (no “:1”)

[Colin D Bennett <colin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:41:59 -0600
Mark Rages <markrages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Colin D Bennett <colin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hidden option 3: Make gschem assume “:1” for ‘net’ attribute values
> > without a “:N” suffix.
> 
> This has been proposed by several users, including me.

Mark, many thanks for posting the references to that conversation.
I appreciate the very appropriate and poignant subject line mentioning
“DRY, colon cancer, and redundant, repetitive redundancy”. :-)
My thoughts exactly.

The “ugly workaround” [1] you mention is exactly what I described as
Option 2. (Except I use the convention of the normal input-2 symbol,
using the ‘value’ attribute instead of ‘description’.)

There is also a post-processing kludge [2] implementing Hidden option 3!
This solves all the original problems but does bring its own
inconveniences because it's implemented with post-processing scripting.

Regards,
Colin

References:

[1] “The way I get around the 'ugly' :1 thing is make the net invisible
then use a visible 'description' attribute.” 
Bob Paddock <bpaddock@xxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<http://archives.seul.org/geda/dev/Mar-2004/msg00018.html>.

[2] “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.”
 Miles Gazic; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:45:10 -0600;
<http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/Jun-2009/msg00303.html>.


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