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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 22:08:13 -0800
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] how to pass extra attributes from gschem to pcb
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On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 6:45 PM DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>
> > How would people feeling about adding something like misc or
> > user_attribute_string (or something) to the list?
>
> Perhaps a way to put a list of attributes-to-be-copied into the .pcb
> itself, which are somehow passed to pcbfwd?  Or put such a list in the
> .sch files?
>
> I'm just thinking, if we're bumping into this now, it would be a shame
> to not make it flexible enough to support *any* attribute, and not just
> a continuously growing but fixed list.  If there's a simple way to make
> it flexible, that would be better.

That would be fine as well.  It sounds like a little more work than
just adding one
more hard-coded name.  I was thinking of having misc="myattr1=foo;myattr2=bar"
or something but that's probably more suitable for my scripts than for
pcb modules.
I guess some people might object to a gschem attribute intended
particularly for pcb
(though in theory the mechanism you propose could also be for general
consumption).

Britton

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