Re: gEDA-user: PCB format wishlist

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 5, 2010, at 1:56 PM, kai-martin knaak wrote:

> Stefan Salewski wrote:
> 
>> One disadvantage of that format may be:
>> We have lines starting with a letter followed by up to 16 decimal
>> numbers -- hand editing such lines may be difficult. Not a problem for
>> me, I do not intend hand editing.
> 
> More precisely: Positional parameters are bad.
> Mapping position to meaning makes it hard to add additional parameters 
> anywhere but at the end. Structured data does not easily fit easily. It is 
> next to impossible to throw meaningful errors if values are in the wrong 
> order. Instead, the error likely goes unnoticed on read and can produce 
> havoc at unsuspected places further down the flow.

So gschem and gnetlist must obviously be constantly failing, suffer from horrible inflexibility, and users must live in a fog of file format driven error. Except they don't.

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




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