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On Oct 19, 2015, at 1:34 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

>=20
>> You forget that one way to make a variant page is "cp page1.sch
>> page2.sch; gschem page2.sch".
>=20
> And now it's path-to-object-in-design is different.  I mentioned that
> already.
>=20
>> Once you're enumerating use cases, trying to come up with a solution
>> to each one, you're not thinking flexibility anymore.
>=20
> Thank you for that negativity.  Please come up with an alternative
> that works then.  Make sure it's flexible enough to cover all use
> cases, especially the ones we're not enumerating any more.
>=20

What you seem to want is an rigorous, opaque database rather than =
gada-gaf=92s shallow, transparent schematic files. There is nothing =
wrong with that desire: it has different strengths and weaknesses =
compared to geda-gaf. However, it is not geda-gaf, and those of us who =
use geda-gaf for its strengths probably wouldn=92t find it useful.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com



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