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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:37:01 +0200
From: Ivan Stankovic <pokemon AT fly DOT srk DOT fer DOT hr>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gnetlist: allow net= attributes without a pin number
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 09:58:52AM +0200, Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz wrote:
> This has been discussed several times.
> The consensus was that hacking this as a special case is frowned upon.
> 
> References:
> http://old.nabble.com/gEDA-user:-Attribute-Net-(without-pin-assignment)---for-Power-and-Port-Symbols-td31365921.html
> http://old.nabble.com/gEDA-user%3A-gschem%3A-net-attribute-for-power-I-O,-clean-appearance--(no-“%3A1”)-tc31102453.html

Although I agree that this would be a special case, I think the thought
of how inelegant this is vanishes once you begin to do some real work
with geda. Personally I've been using my patched version of geda
for real work simply because the official version would be a major
pain to use. And defaulting pinnumber to 1 is among the most important
patches in my stack.

Now, I don't claim that this is the best way to solve the problem,
but as a user I wouldn't want to use geda if it forced me to edit
several attributes for what should esssentialy be a simple operation.

As a developer, I can totally understand the need to write simple,
consistent and elegant code, but when it comes to designing a board,
the tradeoff suddenly becomes painfully clear and I just use the
patched version.

-- 
Ivan Stankovic, pokemon AT fly DOT srk DOT fer DOT hr

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