X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-TCPREMOTEIP: 100.0.183.69 X-Authenticated-UID: jpd AT noqsi DOT com From: John Doty Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_B65BCCBA-E0AB-41B2-B70C-B2EF69980284" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 13.4 \(3608.120.23.2.4\)) Subject: Re: [geda-user] submitted a new patch Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:07:50 -0400 References: <14f9e862-8ee0-4432-23b6-06e94215baa4 AT epilitimus DOT com> <32bfe083-3604-b747-030a-48a13e2b1074 AT epilitimus DOT com> <7c133ba2-5b09-91f3-808f-9f444c625278 AT epilitimus DOT com> To: "Nicklas SB Karlsson (nk AT nksb DOT online) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" In-Reply-To: Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3608.120.23.2.4) Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk --Apple-Mail=_B65BCCBA-E0AB-41B2-B70C-B2EF69980284 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 >=20 > Any opinions from people who use SPICE? =46rom the ngspice manual: "you may place a .TITLE line anywhere in your input deck. = The first line of your input deck will be overridden by the contents of = this line following the .TITLE statement.=E2=80=9D This means that no special feature is required of a SPICE netlister = here: all the gEDA SPICE netlisters have ways to insert arbitrary SPICE = directives into the deck. I=E2=80=99m not a fan of adding special = features that duplicate general capabilities. > What bothers me is the usage of the "comment=3D" attribute: I think that attributes specialized to a particular netlist format = should use names unique to the format going forward. For spice-noqsi, = there are spice-prolog=3D, spice-epilog=3D and spice-prototype=3D. = Legacy attributes like file=3D are, of course, difficult to replace. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. jpd AT noqsi DOT com --Apple-Mail=_B65BCCBA-E0AB-41B2-B70C-B2EF69980284 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Any opinions from people who use SPICE?

=46rom the ngspice manual:

"you may place a .TITLE <any = title> line anywhere in your input deck. The first line of = your input deck will be overridden by the contents of this line = following the .TITLE statement.=E2=80=9D

This means that no special feature is required of a SPICE = netlister here: all the gEDA SPICE netlisters have ways to insert = arbitrary SPICE directives into the deck. I=E2=80=99m not a fan of = adding special features that duplicate general capabilities.

What bothers me is the usage of the "comment=3D" = attribute:

I think that = attributes specialized to a particular netlist format should use names = unique to the format going forward. For spice-noqsi, there are = spice-prolog=3D, spice-epilog=3D and spice-prototype=3D. Legacy = attributes like file=3D are, of course, difficult to replace.

John Doty    =           Noqsi = Aerospace, Ltd.

jpd AT noqsi DOT com




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