X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-TCPREMOTEIP: 207.224.51.38 X-Authenticated-UID: jpd AT noqsi DOT com From: John Doty Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_8B8B2397-1BD2-443B-9B66-E6D72F0FED62" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Subject: Re: [geda-user] [pcb] mainline: redundant attributes: bug or feature? (fwd) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:12:43 -0600 References: To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com In-Reply-To: Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) 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=_8B8B2397-1BD2-443B-9B66-E6D72F0FED62 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On Aug 16, 2017, at 9:15 AM, Frank Miles (fpm AT u DOT washington DOT edu) [via = geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: >=20 > Another item may be that earlier someone posted that only the first = instance of an attribute is used and subsequent instances are ignored. That=E2=80=99s a matter for your gnetlist back end writer. If the back = end calls (get-package-attribute) it gets the first one. If it calls = (get-all-package-attributes) it gets a list of all of them. Of course, = what it should do with such a list depends on the downstream flow. How to do this consistently and sanely in the future is issue 105 at the = lepton-eda github repository. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ jpd AT noqsi DOT com --Apple-Mail=_8B8B2397-1BD2-443B-9B66-E6D72F0FED62 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

On Aug 16, 2017, at 9:15 AM, Frank Miles (fpm AT u DOT washington DOT edu) = [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

Another item may be that earlier = someone posted that only the first instance of an attribute is used and = subsequent instances are ignored.

That=E2=80=99s a matter for your gnetlist back end = writer. If the back end calls (get-package-attribute) it gets the first = one. If it calls (get-all-package-attributes) it gets a list of all of = them. Of course, what it should do with such a list depends on the = downstream flow.

How to do this = consistently and sanely in the future is issue 105 at the lepton-eda = github repository.

John Doty Noqsi = Aerospace, Ltd.

http://www.noqsi.com/

jpd AT noqsi DOT com

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