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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 14:41:21 +0200
From: "Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Reduce pinnumber attribute
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 06:26:06 -0600
John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:

> 
> On Oct 21, 2015, at 4:13 AM, Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > I assume pinnumber attribute is used to uniquely identify a pin.
> > 
> > For almost all if not all cases I guess the pinlabel could be used as symbol pin number. If netlister use pinlabel attribute if no pinnumber attribute is available number of attributes could be reduced.
> > 
> > Are there any disadvantages?
> 
> Gnetlist doesn’t work that way. The Scheme API uses pinnumber to identify the pin. Without pinnumber, you can’t even look up what pinlabel is. However, you can use any string as the “pinnumber”.

But if Gnetlist was changed would there be any disadvantages then?


Nicklas Karlsson