John Doty wrote: > On May 7, 2009, at 6:53 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote: > >> Of course it may be a bug of 1.4.0, I >> can not test this, have only 1.4.3 available. > > One could make the case that the bug is in 1.4.3. A component without > either refdes= or graphical=1 might reasonably be considered an > error. But the treatment of attributes in gEDA keeps changing. I wish > there was better documentation on how attributes are actually *used* > by gschem and gnetlist. The Symbol Creation Guide is "style manual", > not a language definition. > > The "anything goes" approach to attributes was fine when there were > few special cases in the core code, but increasingly I'm seeing > strange behavior that's apparently due to the core code assuming > attribute meaning that's undocumented and/or specific to the gsch2pcb > flow. This is not good. > > John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. > http://www.noqsi.com/ > [email protected] >
And, if it becomes part of the gschem/gsch2pcb/pcb standard that all non-physical schematic objects require 'graphical=1', then 'graphical=1' should be automatically part of these objects (i.e. input-1.sym, output-1.sym), so that the user does not have to add it every time he/she uses the symbol. Also, I think this info about the attribute treatment of physical/non-physical schematic elements should be added to the gsch2pcb tutorial. Dave _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
