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From: "Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:26:54 -0800
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] [pcb] mainline: redundant attributes: bug or feature?
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Girvin Herr (gherrl AT fastmail DOT com)
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>
> On 08/14/2017 10:28 PM, Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>>
>>> I suspect my thoughts were this: the user API should require/expect
>>> unique keys (hence get-by-value) but the low level stuff should be able
>>> to preserve (erroneous) redundant keys when loading/saving a *.pcb file.
>>> Making load/store git friendly is a goal in pcb.
>>
>> Attribute with same name added several times may in sort of be interpreted
>> as a list of values. In gschem it is possible to add several attributes with
>> same name but it never make sense and it's not possible to know for sure
>> which value is used.
>
> Greetings,
> As a user, I might add my 2-cents to this discussion by saying that I use
> multiple instances of the "Comment" symbol attribute in my schematics. I

Same here

Britton

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