Re: gEDA-user: text labels on symbols, DRY, colon cancer, and redundant, repetitive redundancy.

2009-06-11 Thread Miles Gazic
> > Would anyone be opposed to having the netlister assume a :1 for net= > > attributes without a colon? > There was a patch for this available, but it did not make it in the > official code. I would love it if I didn't need the :1 on netlist names.  Right now I do not have :1 on my net names, and

Re: gEDA-user: text labels on symbols, DRY, colon cancer, and redundant, repetitive redundancy.

2009-06-11 Thread John Doty
On Jun 11, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Stefan Salewski wrote: > >> Would anyone be opposed to having the netlister assume a :1 for net= >> attributes without a colon? > > There was a patch for this available, but it did not make it in the > official code. There is a confusing collection of ways a one pin

Re: gEDA-user: text labels on symbols, DRY, colon cancer, and redundant, repetitive redundancy.

2009-06-11 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 21:18 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: > > There was a patch for this available, but it did not make it in the > official code. > > See http://www.geda.seul.org/mailinglist/geda-user137/msg00098.html ___ geda-user mailing lis

Re: gEDA-user: text labels on symbols, DRY, colon cancer, and redundant, repetitive redundancy.

2009-06-11 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 13:47 -0500, Mark Rages wrote: > In http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:scg, referring to the "device=" attribute: > > > This attribute should not be used as a label. Use a separate text object > > for the label. > > What is the reasoning behind this? This is pointless redundan

gEDA-user: text labels on symbols, DRY, colon cancer, and redundant, repetitive redundancy.

2009-06-11 Thread Mark Rages
In http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:scg, referring to the "device=" attribute: > This attribute should not be used as a label. Use a separate text object for >the label. What is the reasoning behind this?  This is pointless redundancy. And it makes using "light" symbols harder, because you need di