Re: gEDA-user: Strange behavior with input-1.sym and output-1.sym?

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On May 7, 2009, at 6:53 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote:

> Of course it may be a bug of 1.4.0, I
> can not test this, have only 1.4.3 available.

One could make the case that the bug is in 1.4.3. A component without  
either refdes= or  graphical=1 might reasonably be considered an  
error. But the treatment of attributes in gEDA keeps changing. I wish  
there was better documentation on how attributes are actually *used*  
by gschem and gnetlist. The Symbol Creation Guide is "style manual",  
not  a language definition.

The "anything goes" approach to attributes was fine when there were  
few special cases in the core code, but increasingly I'm seeing  
strange behavior that's apparently due to the core code assuming  
attribute meaning that's undocumented and/or specific to the gsch2pcb  
flow. This is not good.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd@xxxxxxxxx




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