On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:14:58PM -0600, John Doty wrote:
> 
> On Aug 14, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Andrew Poelstra wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 03:17:42AM -0400, Paul Tan wrote:
> >> ...In fact, I would like to see that gEDA can process ANY attributes
> >> attached to a net in similar fashion as it process ANY attributes
> >> attached to a symbol currently.
> >> 
> > 
> > I agree, but I'm not sure this would be useful until we find a way
> > to split nets up into subnets - which is a much more complicated
> > change.
> 
> Not so much. We already draw nets as segments, and attributes are actually 
> attached to segments, not nets. Might need to modify the segment merging 
> rules, but that's about it. And one could argue that the automatic segment 
> merging is already a case of the tool inappropriately trying to outsmart the 
> user.
>

I see. We do do this in gschem - but not in pcb, nor in the .net file
coming out of gsch2pcb. So PCB would need a breaking change in its .net
and .pcb formats, no?

Andrew
 


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