gEDA-dev: Broken slotting

[Peter Clifton]

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 09:56 -0400, John Doty wrote:
> On Sep 11, 2007, at 8:07 AM, Peter Clifton wrote:
> 
> > I should be able to write a fix over the next day or so.
> >
> > Thanks for confirming the desired behaviour. I was (and still am) a
> > little concerned about not having any "contractual" guarantee that  
> > every
> > symbol will have pinseq attributes start at "1" and end at the  
> > number of
> > pins on the device. Perhaps this is implied though, by the nature  
> > of the
> > slotdef attribute.
> 
> Can we think this out a little better? Pinseq is a confusing  
> attribute, made more confusing by its overloading:

This was kind-of where I was going with the "is it the right solution"
question. Clearly we want to fix the bug, but I guess this is something
we should think about long-term.

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Peter Clifton

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