gEDA-user: net labels question

[Dan McMahill]

Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:29:52 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote:
> 
>> actually it is a result of abusing a private pcb interface.  I've ranted
>> about this here before.
> 
> Last time I checked, gsch2pcb produced invalid *.pcb layout files when 
> confronted with hyphens in footprint names. This is about the worst thing 
> it could do, as it leaves the user totally clueless on what went wrong. 
> Has there been any effort to defuse this show stopper? 

It can do this and it is a result of gsch2pcb abusing a private pcb 
interface.  As far as the next step, I've outlined an approach here 
before that I think will work, but I haven't had any time to actually 
implement it.

-Dan