Re: gEDA-user: netlists, no connects and unnamed nets

[Carlos Nieves Ónega <cnieves@xxxxxxxxxx>]

El jue, 13-09-2007 a las 15:33 -0400, John Doty escribió:
> On Sep 13, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Carlos Nieves Ónega wrote:
> 
> > Hi Duncan,
> > I'm the one who wrote the DRC checker...
> >
> > El jue, 13-09-2007 a las 20:58 +0200, Duncan Drennan escribió:
> >>> The NC symbol has device=DRC_Directive, and value=NoConnection.
> >>
> >> Back to the topic: is there a way to modify the scheme so that the
> >> netlister will skip DRC_Directive devices when assigning net names?
> >
> > If you connect the NC symbol to any net which has only one connection,
> > the DRC should not report any warnings or errors. If you get  
> > warnings or
> > errors, it's a bug.
> 
> Go back to the start of the thread: he's not complaining about DRC,  
> he's complaining that to get DRC to shut up he has to create  
> unconnected nets, which then show up in his netlist.

yup, you are right. BTW, it's gnetlist which is creating those nets, and
then the DRC backend only checks them. 
I'm afraid there is currently no way to make gnetlist skip those nets
from the output (or at least I don't know any).

> I'm the one complaining about DRC. But my complaint isn't that it's  
> buggy: my complaint is that it is a source of newbie confusion, and  
> not especially useful at finding actual problems.

That's your opinion, and it depends of what you are doing and how you
use (or want to use) it.
Mine is that any check, even a bad and incomplete one, is better than
none (specially for newbies).

Regards,

Carlos



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