X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Authentication-Warning: envy.delorie.com: dj set sender to dj AT delorie DOT com using -f From: DJ Delorie To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] Refdes bug or Master Attribute Document on the Wiki needs update. In-Reply-To: <39F95153-164B-4676-9321-D0AB679E7F19@noqsi.com> (message from John Doty on Wed, 30 Jan 2019 13:00:10 -0500) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 13:07:10 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id x0UI7Bl0030627 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 John Doty writes: > But that should be a choice, defined by the scripting for a particular > flow, not in the core code. There aren’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’t matter), as well as the symmetries between slots > (which slot your use doesn’t matter). I think this legacy treatment of refdes's by PCB is "universally unliked" by devs, and perhaps there are few enough remaining pcb users that we can safely nuke it from orbit now.