Re: gEDA-user: unpromoted visible attributes

2009-10-24 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 24 October 2009 00:33:41 Peter Clifton wrote: I'm of the mind that we should (in an ideal world) _remove_ all automatic attribute promotion (perhaps excepting the special case of symversion), and define some new rules as to how an aggregate list of attributes is constructed from a

Re: gEDA-user: unpromoted visible attributes

2009-10-24 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 24 October 2009 01:36:15 Peter Clifton wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 17:17 -0700, Jared Casper wrote: Are you sure? I think that was deleted in this commit: o_complex_copy() definitely still calls o_complex_remove_promotable_attribs. Not sure why though. Doh.. I didn't

Re: gEDA-user: unpromoted visible attributes

2009-10-24 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 24 October 2009 07:37:04 Peter TB Brett wrote: On Saturday 24 October 2009 00:33:41 Peter Clifton wrote: I'm of the mind that we should (in an ideal world) _remove_ all automatic attribute promotion (perhaps excepting the special case of symversion), and define some new rules as

Re: gEDA-user: unpromoted visible attributes

2009-10-24 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 07:57 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: Ales' criteria is, Changing user workflows is verboten, apparently. Which is fair enough.. but I'm not convinced how much this really changes the work-flow. ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: unpromoted visible attributes

2009-10-24 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Saturday 24 October 2009 15:21:22 Peter Clifton wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 07:57 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: Ales' criteria is, Changing user workflows is verboten, apparently. Which is fair enough.. but I'm not convinced how much this really changes the work-flow. I agree, as I

Re: gEDA-user: unpromoted visible attributes

2009-10-24 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 16:10 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: On Saturday 24 October 2009 15:21:22 Peter Clifton wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 07:57 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: Ales' criteria is, Changing user workflows is verboten, apparently. Which is fair enough.. but I'm not convinced

Re: gEDA-user: unpromoted visible attributes

2009-10-24 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 17:17 -0700, Jared Casper wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: This is a really nasty and troublesome issue, and there are lots of subtleties which can catch you out - such as embedded complex objects. I figured as much... :)

Re: gEDA-user: unpromoted visible attributes

2009-10-24 Thread Jared Casper
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Unless there is anyone available to work on implementing it, the point is moot anyway! While that is true, if those with enough experience and clout in the project were to spend the time to agree on a plan, or a direction at

Re: gEDA-user: unpromoted visible attributes

2009-10-24 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 11:41 -0700, Jared Casper wrote: On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Unless there is anyone available to work on implementing it, the point is moot anyway! While that is true, if those with enough experience and clout in the project

Re: gEDA-user: unpromoted visible attributes

2009-10-24 Thread John Doty
On Oct 23, 2009, at 11:57 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: On Saturday 24 October 2009 07:37:04 Peter TB Brett wrote: On Saturday 24 October 2009 00:33:41 Peter Clifton wrote: I'm of the mind that we should (in an ideal world) _remove_ all automatic attribute promotion (perhaps excepting the

gEDA-user: unpromoted visible attributes

2009-10-23 Thread Jared Casper
Hi all, I'm working on a patch to libgeda and got in a little over my head so wanted to get some help/feedback... I wanted to make it possible to not promote visible attributes, as previously, all visible attributes were automatically promoted. This was annoying if say, I wanted the part number

Re: gEDA-user: unpromoted visible attributes

2009-10-23 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:58 -0700, Jared Casper wrote: Hi all, I'm working on a patch to libgeda and got in a little over my head so wanted to get some help/feedback... This is a really nasty and troublesome issue, and there are lots of subtleties which can catch you out - such as embedded

Re: gEDA-user: unpromoted visible attributes

2009-10-23 Thread Jared Casper
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: This is a really nasty and troublesome issue, and there are lots of subtleties which can catch you out - such as embedded complex objects. I figured as much... :) Thank you for your detailed reply. There isn't an easy

Re: gEDA-user: unpromoted visible attributes

2009-10-23 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 17:17 -0700, Jared Casper wrote: Are you sure? I think that was deleted in this commit: o_complex_copy() definitely still calls o_complex_remove_promotable_attribs. Not sure why though. Doh.. I didn't read the diff carefully enough. One call was shown removed, but