gEDA-user: Re: ground plane fill

[DJ Delorie]

> When creating a copper fill you got (amongst other things) a drop
> down list of nets, and you chose which one you wanted the polygon
> connected to. This makes the connectivity dependent on the net,
> rather than some flag in the many bits of track on the board, which
> sort of made sense to me.

I think to do this sanely, we'd need to add the feature whereby every
line, arc, pin, and polygon know which net they're supposed to be
connected to, regardless of the actual electrical connection.

This is a big project, but it's been talked about a little.