On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 09:44:16AM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > IMO, strong, both the eescema design and the xml netlist should have > referential integrity. > > How does it look to give someone an xml file and say, all the references > are case insensitive, other than hoaky?
It's a design decision like any other... I wouldn't see nothing strange in declaring 'all module names are case-folded matched' or 'all module names are stored up/downcased'; 'module names are matched exactly' is a quite fine way of doing things. However: 1) If we pursue the same thing with pcbnew modules where modulename==filename hell break loose under Windows (for obvious reasons) 2) That would include *typing* the module with the correct case in the entry boxes for the user (could be inconvenient). I think that a 'name is uppercase and matched exactly' rule would be a good compromise in this case. Keep the == operator (not some folding variant) and upcase everything on the I/O boundaries. Unless someone already uses different Module and MODULE object nothing should break. (of course replace uppercase with lowercase if preferred) > The referential integrity of the xml file > Is established by the referential integrity within the design files, > schematic and libraries, or by the lack of such referential integrity. It's somewhat funny talking about relational integrity on a hierarchical database format:D however I agree on the spirit of the idea. AFAIK XML *is* case sensitive so that should be the way to do it. > Certainly fixing eeschema will break designs, unless somebody can think of > a fix point where eeschema can heal the design. Converting on I/O and exact comparing shouldn't break a thing (except in the already mentioned case). Putting the case conversion in the setter methods could help, too. By the way, the XML itself was *mostly* correct, the only wrong case was the part attribute of the libsource element. -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
