gEDA-dev: Pinning down libgeda

[Sven Wilhelmsson]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 22:57 -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:

> Something left off of this list which I think is important is that in 
> the current system, nets don't have names in gschem unless you name them 
> explicitly.  The unnamed nets get assigned names at netlist time by 
> gnetlist.  This makes it a bit of a pain I think to then use the 
> schematic to drive a waveform viewer.  In other words, how can I click 
> on a net and press "plot it" if the schematic tool doesn't know what 
> that net is called in the netlist (and hence in the simulator output).
> 

My recipe for naming nets is:

1. Sort symbols on refdes.
2. Assign all pins a pin_order_number.
3. Node_number = MIN(pin_order_number (connected_pins))


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