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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:35:39 +0100 (CET)
From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Refdes bug or Master Attribute Document on the Wiki
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2019, John Doty wrote:
> Remember, pcb existed before gEDA, and Ales designed gEDA to support 
> *any* downstream flow, not just pcb. This is a place where core gEDA 
> conventions don’t quite match the conventions of the downstream tool.

Do you think it would be helpful to allow custom slot names (as opposed to 
slot=1, slot=2 etc.)?

Is there anything that depends on slot names being sequential integers?

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