Re: gEDA-dev: some suggestions

[John Griessen <john_g-at-NOSPAMcibolo_dot_com>]

Peter TB Brett wrote:

> I'm currently using heirachy in gschem and gnetlist in the design of a rather 
> complex circuit board... so I'd describe that as a fait accompli.
> 
> Unless you meant something different, of course.

I'm doing that and using a script I documented on gedasymbols.org to rework
a layout cell that gets replicated six times in a row using John Luciani's 
pgb_matrix script slightly modified.  For one level of hierarchy, it's useful as is.

He meant hierarchy that isn't flattened.   Where a signal name can be traced 
through inouts and symbol-to-schematic-connectors all the way up and down nay 
number of levels.   Where creating a symbol for placing a schematic in a 
schematic is a standardized, scriptable thing that does not depend on changing 
attribs attached to inout ports on schematics.   The netlist for such a method 
will show modules placed and instance numbers when copies are placed without 
creating names for subschematics that end in a number.

You can take such a netlist, flatten it, and get what gnetlist produces now.

John G


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