gEDA-dev: [pcb] attributes

[Peter TB Brett]

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 16:24, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > This leads me to a tangential riff on the following question: Now
> > that both gschem and PCB have them, what is the purpose of these
> > unattached attributes?
>
> My primary motivation was for metadata - authorship, copyright,
> pointers to web pages, etc.  PCB has no other way of recording
> these in a way that gets preserved across load/save.
>
> > 2.  They can hold information pertainent to the *tool*.  For
> > example, you can hold the last zoom setting of your gschem session,
> > the column widths and order for gattrib, etc.
>
> That too, if you want.  I figured other tools that process pcb files
> would want some way of recording their info in there, for example, an
> RF analyzer would store its rule settings in there.  My guideline was
> "I don't know what they'll use it for" ;-)
>

Would there be any mileage in the concept of attribute "namespaces"?

Peter

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