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On Fri, 09 Oct 2020 22:06:34 -0400
DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> 
> > How would people feeling about adding something like misc or
> > user_attribute_string (or something) to the list?
> 
> Perhaps a way to put a list of attributes-to-be-copied into the .pcb
> itself, which are somehow passed to pcbfwd?  Or put such a list in the
> .sch files?

Other information is passed by netlist so preferred method must be to pass information this path.

> I'm just thinking, if we're bumping into this now, it would be a shame
> to not make it flexible enough to support *any* attribute, and not just
> a continuously growing but fixed list.  If there's a simple way to make
> it flexible, that would be better.

gschem is very flexible, no problem adding whatever attribute is needed.