gEDA-dev: Re: Bug reports for gattrib

[Stephen Williams]

Stuart Brorson wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Stephen Williams wrote:

>> The whole point (at least in my case) of this attribute is to
>> avoid a spray of pointless pins. I think it's much clearer to
>> think of it as "Oh and by the way, connect GND to pins 5, 7, 9
>> and 12." I'm not sure what attaching the net to a pin would mean.
> 
> The thing is that there is a one-to-one mapping from a pin to a net.
> (There is not a one-to-one mapping from a net to a pin, OTOH)  That
> means that the place to display this attribute is under the pins tab.

That is different from saying that the net= attribute should be
attached to "pins". "Attaching an attribute to a pin" is not the
same as "Interpreting an attribute that declares abstract pins."
The latter is what is happening in my schematic. But the problem
is that "pins" created by a net= attribute do not necessarily
exist in the schematic so cannot have attributes attached to them.

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