X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com From: John Doty Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-2--506877580 Subject: Re: [geda-user] Find rat lines Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:17:24 -0700 In-Reply-To: To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com References: <20121204183305 DOT 6b04c0dc AT jive DOT levalinux DOT org> <1355577174 DOT 24123 DOT 61 DOT camel AT thinkpad DOT richardbarlow DOT co DOT uk> <34E3F8FB-5461-44D6-A287-2D74AFED5311 AT noqsi DOT com> <20121217033732 DOT 26277 DOT qmail AT stuge DOT se>

Message-Id: <1685AD45-9288-4149-BFDF-1F2E6333B369@noqsi.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) 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-2--506877580 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Dec 17, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Levente wrote: > IMHO, it would. At least the DRC. >=20 > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Rupert Swarbrick = wrote: > Levente writes: > > This will also makes a short. No difference. >=20 > I think that Markus's point is that PCB wouldn't regard this as a = short > between the two nets. >=20 > Rupert >=20 The essential problem here is that there's no way to tell whether this = is intentional or not without a mechanism to clearly communicate the = intention to the software.Without this mechanism, any behavior of the = software will sometimes produce wrong results. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ jpd AT noqsi DOT com --Apple-Mail-2--506877580 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

IMHO, it = would. At least the DRC.

On Mon, Dec = 17, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

Levente <leventelist AT gmail DOT com> = writes:
> This will also makes a short. No difference.

I think that Markus's point is that PCB wouldn't regard this as a = short
between the two nets.

Rupert

The = essential problem here is that there's no way to tell whether this is = intentional or not without a mechanism to clearly communicate the = intention to the software.Without this mechanism, any behavior of the = software will sometimes produce wrong results.

John Doty Noqsi = Aerospace, Ltd.

http://www.noqsi.com/

jpd AT noqsi DOT com

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