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[John Beard <john.j.beard@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/05/14 20:12, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 07:31:47PM +0100, John Beard wrote:
>> it will show you what it can. You'd be annoyed if it didn't, it would be
>> like Flash needing the latest version to watch your video, without the
>> excuse that is necessary to implement the latest and greatest DRM fad.
> 
> Uhm... doesn't actually flash or java work this way? I uninstalled them
> after being tired of the weekly updates....

Indeed they do, and isn't it annoying!

> I'm still convinced that a simple generic something like (attribute
> "user_sku" "45443"), like that supported by gencad would be useful for
> your needs. eeschema attributes works like that, too.

A generic attribute *would* be useful for a wide range of things, but
I'd like to see if it isn't just as easy to use arbitrarily-structured
data first.

John