gEDA-dev: Thoughts on buses in gschem

[Bob Paddock]

> My preference would be for the Orcad method (which sounds similar to the Cadence
> method).
> 
> As I remember the Orcad method you run a net from the pin and name the net.
> You place a bus entry symbol to graphical connect the net to a bus.
> The connection is done by net names not the bus. Labels on the bus do not
> affect connections.

This makes it very easy, and wrong, to hook things up to the bus
that ultimately go no place (they never come back out of the bus
anyplace).  I have to deal with badly drawing Orcad schematics
every day.  BossMan just sicks things in the bus, and misspells
them coming out etc... :-(  So if this approach is used then there needs
be a check to flag bus nets that don't go anyplace.