gEDA-dev: some suggestions

[Stuart Brorson]

> I didn't even know you could have global netnames.
> Can you?

Sure, all netnames are global.  That is, if I name a net "foo" on one
schematic page, and name another net "foo" on a different page, then
the nets will be connected together by gnetlist if I run gnetlist on
both files at once.

This behavior is the same as that obtained in ViewDraw.  However, it's
different from Orcad.  In Orcad, you must explicitly put an off-page
connector symbol on a net to allow it to propagate across pages.

> After some discussion about all the very
> complicated things that people wanted buses to do that my proposal didn't (on
> account of the fact it was a very simple first-pass approach), nothing was
> done about it.

<* chuckle *>

That's not unusual.  Don't be discouraged.  Over time several
different ways to deal with busses have been mooted, but nothing has
actually been implemented yet.  It's a hard problem.

Stuart