[gt-users] gff3 parser

[Gordon Gremme]

>> But I can see your point that this behaviour is unexpected from the
>> user perspective.
>>
>> One solution would be to use Name attributes instead of ID attributes.
>> They don't have to be unique and are properly retained. Another
>> solution would be to implement the possibility to retain the ID
>> attributes as far as possible (uniqueness might require
>> modifications).
>
> yeah, i've added an arbitrary attribute instead of using ID or Name.
> as a naive user, i'd prefer that gt left attributes unchanged, but using
> an attribute other than id works fine.

I agree that it would be more intuitive if the IDs would be retained
as much as possible.
Just created a ticket for it, but I probably won't have time to
implement it myself.

If someone want's to tackle it, just let me know and I give the
corresponding pointers on where to look in the code. It's a good task
to get started with the codebase.

Gordon