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On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 07:44:21AM +0100, Peter Clifton (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> I prefer DJ's color of bike shed for its syntactic similarity to names
> paces in certain programing languages.

OK, let the separator be '::'.

> 
> The idea is solid, and would be nice to see.
> 
> Ideally, backends should be able to communicate a list of attributes they
> consume as a means to help populate lists in the gui (if we ever get to the
> point where there is enough "project" concept to determine at schematic
> capture time what backend(s) the user is targeting.) A configuration file
> entry for target backends might be enough.

What name would you offer for such a configuration option?

-- 
  Vladimir