Re: gEDA-user: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On May 23, 2011, at 1:40 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:

> In a heirarchy, only the "higher" level schematics know what
> the heirarchy is, the sub-schematics don't, so the higher ones need to
> retain the instance-specific data.

Hierarchy isn't the only reuse scenario. Consider transition from breadboard to prototype to production. A top-level schematic might not change, even though attributes of parts might change (different packages, tighter specs, ...). In that case, the instance-specific data can't be in *any* schematic. 

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




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