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From: "Markus Hitter (mah AT jump-ing DOT de) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 15:54:36 +0200
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Am 10.09.2015 um 15:10 schrieb Peter Stuge:
> Markus Hitter (mah AT jump-ing DOT de) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> DRC does just DRC, not connection checking.
> 
> It could and should check connections too.
> 
> I often find myself running DRC and optimizing rats (only to check
> connections!) together, it makes perfect sense to make connection
> checking part of DRC, either in addition to, or maybe instead of,
> rat optimization.

Please file a bug for it, ideally with a testcase applied. Bonus points
for a patch implementing this behaviour.

A nice beginners task. Most "difficult" part will be to make the
connection check text appear in the DRC window. Which is not exactly tricky.


Markus

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