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From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] New experimental netlist features
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On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Markus Hitter (mah AT jump-ing DOT de) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Does this mean one can take all the commits from your fork and simply 
> apply them to the official repo?

There are some thing to consider, and it's not fork in a technical sense, 
but in theory, yes.  I'd prefer to do it myself, though.

> I have no idea how a netlister works, I want to encourage you to help 
> re-duplicating efforts. Having an improved netlister, but shipping the 
> other one is somewhat pointless. As it is to put big efforts into a 
> netlister which is used by only one person on this planet.

Until the Scheme wrapper is in place, using the improved netlister 
requires some work on the user's part, so it's probably a good idea to 
wait until I (or maybe someone else) found the time to write that wrapper.

Roland