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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:08:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] how to pass extra attributes from gschem to pcb
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On Fri, 9 Oct 2020, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 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?

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, DJ Delorie wrote:
> So just naming an attribute "pcb:something=foo" causes "something=foo"
> to be migrated into the element.

I like both approaches.

Unless there's some further argument in favor of (1), I'll implement (2).

Roland