X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-TCPREMOTEIP: 173.48.170.224 X-Authenticated-UID: jpd AT noqsi DOT com From: John Doty Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_3B663CD4-F04C-4FDA-9382-57DBA3E83C09" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Subject: Re: [geda-user] Refdes bug or Master Attribute Document on the Wiki needs update. Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 13:00:10 -0500 References: <9ed059c0-f3c5-1482-169b-f8f1119f3208 AT fastmail DOT com> To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <39F95153-164B-4676-9321-D0AB679E7F19@noqsi.com> 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=_3B663CD4-F04C-4FDA-9382-57DBA3E83C09 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On Jan 30, 2019, at 12:36 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote: >=20 > pcb and/or gsch2pcb and/or the pcb backend (gnetlist) may have traces = of=20 > the suffixing assumption from some age when someone thought it would = be a=20 > good idea to have it in gEDA too. (pcb-rnd doesn't have a special case = for=20 > lower case last letter of refdes - if some old corner of the code has = it,=20 > it's a bug that I'd fix when reported). But that should be a choice, defined by the scripting for a particular = flow, not in the core code. There aren=E2=80=99t just these two = mechanisms, either. Allegro, for example, has a much more elaborate = mechanism that keeps track of the symmetries within slots (which input = to the NAND you use doesn=E2=80=99t matter), as well as the symmetries = between slots (which slot your use doesn=E2=80=99t matter). John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. jpd AT noqsi DOT com --Apple-Mail=_3B663CD4-F04C-4FDA-9382-57DBA3E83C09 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

On Jan 30, 2019, at 12:36 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu = wrote:

pcb and/or gsch2pcb and/or the = pcb backend (gnetlist) may have traces of
the suffixing assumption from some age when = someone thought it would be a
good idea to have it in gEDA too. (pcb-rnd = doesn't have a special case for
lower case last letter of refdes - if some old = corner of the code has it,
it's a bug that I'd fix when = reported).

But that should be a choice, defined by the = scripting for a particular flow, not in the core code. There aren=E2=80=99= t just these two mechanisms, either. Allegro, for example, has a much = more elaborate mechanism that keeps track of the symmetries within slots = (which input to the NAND you use doesn=E2=80=99t matter), as well as the = symmetries between slots (which slot your use doesn=E2=80=99t = matter).

John Doty = Noqsi = Aerospace, Ltd.

jpd AT noqsi DOT com

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