Re: gEDA-user: Hierarchy vs spice-sdb

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Al Davis wrote:
> On Thursday 17 November 2005 03:42 pm, John Doty wrote:

> > One advantage of having gnetlist do the expansion is that you
> > get nice netnames like X1/OUT (ngspice isn't so friendly).
> > Also, for board design, a flat netlist is required (at least
> > by the PCB designer I usually deal with). The "source"
> > mechanism is also nice, allowing the designer to avoid the
> > difficulties wired-in pathnames cause.
>
>
> If your target application requires flat netlists, make a 
> separate utility to flatten it.

no, just write that backend to flatten it.  In other words, make the 
spice netlister spit out a hierarchical netlist, the PCB one a flat 
netlist, etc..  I certain agree though that a big improvement to 
gnetlist would be to allow each backend to decide on hierarchical vs 
flattened.

-Dan