Re: gEDA: attribs file

[sdb@cloud9.net (Stuart Brorson)]

> 
> If I understand the whole stuff correctly, there is a hardwired attribs
> file that defines attribs for gnetlist output.
> 
> However on Ronja I am using gnetlist together with GNU Make and this
> design is not reentrant. It means that if I want to generate 2
> different files with two different sets of attributes and set up make -j 2
> (concurrent job execution for speed up for example on SMP systems), then
> there is no way how to implement it correctly.
> 
> I think using make and concurrent jobs and autogeneration of output files
> is a sensible way and that it is the way how people can be expected to use
> gnetlist in the future.
> 
> I suggest to make possible to at least specify the filename of the former
> attribs file on commandline.

Last year, Terry Porter announced a program called "gbom" which was a
BOM generator that looked more flexible than the gnetlist backends.
It looked like you could specify which attribs to list -- or, more
accurately, which attribs to exclude.  Here's the announcement thread:

http://www.geda.seul.org/mailinglist/geda-user12/msg00109.html

You will need to follow the thread around to find the various download
locations he gave.  Unfortunately, I clicked around to find gbom, but
it appears to have disappeared from the net.  Maybe you could e-mail
Terry and ask him where it went?

Eventually, I envision putting some kind of BOM facility into
gattrib.  The nice thing about gattrib is that since it's a
spreadsheet, you can hide/show different columns and then print out
the attribs you want when you generate the BOM.

By the way, did you ever take the newest gattrib (20040806) out for a
test drive?  It lives in the gEDA project CVS.  I suppose I should
make some kind of announcement that it is available, but I figured
that it would just appear when Ales does the next release.

Stuart