Re: XInfo vs Spice metadata

peter royal wrote:

> On Oct 27, 2003, at 8:12 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote:
>
>> You can always also provide the attributes mechanism so folks can add it
>> if they wish. I was more concerned with the component descriptors. So
>> the .xinfo is now gone?
>
>
> Yes, Loom no longer reads the .xinfo ... I was chatting with Ryan 
> earlier and we may add support for it back, mainly so 'legacy' Avalon 
> components can be used without modification.
> -pete

*raises hand*

I have already extracted the BlockInfoReader interface and will attempt 
a serial try/fail metadata reader approach soon (proyal's idea)

--ryan