gEDA-user: net labels question

[Kai-Martin Knaak]

On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:10:00 -0400, al davis wrote:

> The real question:  Should gschem attempt to enforce naming conventions
> of the various targets?

gnetlist is the component which is responsible for breakage in the 
gschemm-gnetlist-pcb workflow. So gnetlist should is the application at 
fault and should be made more robust against failure.


 
> My opinion:  No, but the netlister should convert non-compliant names to
> compliant names, and conversion back should restore the original name.

My opinion: Please don't resort to such syntax tricks behind the scenes. 
Those schemes interact and fail in unexpected ways.  There is already 
quite a bit of names munging in place. IIRC, the unfortunate hyphen-
breakage of footprint names is already a consequence of non standard 
string interpretation. 

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