gEDA-dev: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf capabilities

[John Griessen]

Peter TB Brett wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 November 2007 17:54:19 John Griessen wrote:
> 
>> What do you think of adding hierarchic schematics that handle instances of
>> subschematics so they are autonumbered, generate a good flat netlist with
>> long names, and support embedded verilog chunks?
> 
> Good idea.  Actually, the big problem here is allowing attributes to have 
> different values depending on context.

Are you meaning the context of an instance of a symbol in a drawing, or turning a reference like 0:4
into a list of instances like 0,1,2,3,4 where you come across the text inside a symbol?
> 
> This is a non-trivial problem (I've recently been working on datastructures & 
> algorithms that might allow it to work).
> 
> The biggest problems are:
> 
>  - the current assumption that each text object has only one possible value
> 
>  - the lack of a defined "project" concept that would make it easier to "look 
> up" what the current value to display would be.

We could benefit multiple ways from making a spec for a project.  So we can use
that info.

John G

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