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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:35:55 -0700
From: "Girvin R. Herr" <girvin DOT herr AT sbcglobal DOT net>
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To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [geda-user] Symbol attributes
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Greetings,
As the OP of this thread, I have decided to go with my "partname=" 
attribute rather than "device=".  There are too many ways the "device=" 
attribute is used or not used and I do not want to get in a bind at some 
future date when my use would conflict with someone else's use of it.  I 
thank all who responded to this thread.  They gave me several points of 
view which helped me make this decision.  It was John Doty's response 
with a solution to my attribute promotion problem that allowed me to use 
the "partname=" solution consistently.  An extra thanks from me, John.

Now, is there a way to get rid of the gsymcheck warning about the 
unknown "partname=" attribute or are the attribute names hardwired into 
gsymcheck?
Girvin Herr


Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>   
>> Do what you think makes sense for your symbols; the device= attribute
>> is not used rigourously by any of the scripts.
>>
>>     
> Because of this ambiguity and ongoing confusion, the symbols I collect for 
> the "Essential-Lib", do not contain a device attribute at all.
>
> ---<)kaimartin(>---
>
>
>