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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 19:12:14 -0400
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On 07/10/2018 04:00 PM, Marvin Dickens (mpdickens AT gmail DOT com) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> A solid net list is required when bringing up non-trivial boards for the
> first time and later during DUT
> after engineering changes / repair. 
> 
> Unless you are a one man shop, a defective net list that has to be
> massaged in order to be reliable will always suspect.

  I agree. I'm usually a one-man shop, but I agree that frobbing the
netlist in between gschem and PCB would not be a clean way to do it.
Sometimes I have to refer back to designs done many years ago (I've been
using gEDA+PCB for about 17 years), and there's no way I'd be able to
remember what I did.  And making a habit of checking the design notes is
frought with peril; all of the information should be contained within
the schematic.

  Adding another net attribute to the symbol instance seems to be the
perfect solution, and it works great.

              -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA