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John Doty wrote:
>     SAB doesn't use spice-protoype but certainly a user could write a
> script
>> to make use of it in a non-spice context if they wished to do so, and
>> then access that script by means of an 'exec' action.
>
> A very strange notion. Of course a backend or any other script
> involved in processing schematics could evaluate a spice-prototype
> attribute, but what good would it be? The whole point of having a
> specialized attribute is to communicate specialized information.
> That’s one of the strengths of the gEDA/Lepton architecture:
> specialized flows don’t need support in the core, and don’t constrain
> other flows.
>
SAB is not tied to any particular flow. I intentionally tried to write
it in a way that was generic enough to allow it to be used in any flow
the user desired. That is why there are only three built in actions,
'discard', 'bypass', and 'exec'. The first two are only built in because
they are (to me) obvious and simple. Anything more complex is handled
via an external user specified script accessed through the 'exec'
action. Such scripts could easily process specialized attributes, or
interpret attributes normally used in one flow to accomplish a similar
task in a different flow. Whatever makes sense to the user. So in my
view SAB actually extends the concept you describe above by taking that
stage out of the backend which means the backend no longer enforces a
particular flow on the user.

Glenn