gEDA-dev: Broken slotting

[John Doty]

On Sep 11, 2007, at 10:52 PM, Ales Hvezda wrote:

>
> Random question, obviously this slipped by me, but there is code  
> that is
> changing the pinseq= number on the fly?  That doesn't seem right to  
> me.
> I always assumed pinseq= would stay constant.

This was Stuart's attempt to make slotted components netlistable for  
Spice. Have a three terminal four slot component with pinseq from 1  
to 3 behave as if it had pinseq from 1 to 12. I personally think that  
this is confusing and not especially useful. For consistency, need a  
spice-slotdef attribute, and maybe a spice-pinnumber attribute would  
be better for unslotted components, too. The way the Spice back ends  
use pinseq has been a frequent source of confusion, even without this  
slotting trick.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd at noqsi.com