gEDA-user: Buses in gEDA/gaf

[Martin Habets]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 01:06:13AM +0000, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> OK, let's review: buses on schematics are a documentation feature, i.e.,
> intended not for tools but for other engineers looking at the drawing,
> right?  Now suppose I want to label my buses for the same purpose: as a
> documentation aid for others looking at my schematics.  Of course I can
> just stick a text object next to it that isn't of name=value form, but
> it seems to me that an attribute would be more appropriate, even if no
> currently existing automated tool can make use of it.  What should the
> attribute name be, that's my question.  I know that I can call it
> anything I want since no tool will look at it, but wouldn't you agree
> that some standardized convention would be nice, so that different
> people who implement this common need do it consistently?  If no such
> convention exists currently, perhaps we should establish one and add it
> to the master attribute list?

I've struggled with the same question a while back. Right now I set something
like "net=busA:1" on each busripper.
By matching the net attribute on both sides of the bus gnetlist can figure
out what pins are connected.
My guess is this won't work if I use "busname=..."?

-- 
Martin