Mail Archives: geda-user/2017/02/11/12:27:11
John,
John Doty wrote:
> I wish Roland would not call his program gnetlist. It’s based on a
> completely new foundation (“xorn”: don’t ask me what that is or
> what it does, it’s very murky to me).
Then you admit to writing from ignorance, and disqualify yourself from
participating in the discussion. You (like everyone!) *must* inform
yourself, and be constructive.
Anything less is you wasting other peoples' time, which I will not
accept.
If you do not know xorn then you have not been paying the slightest
attention to the work that Roland has been doing over quite some time
now.
You need to follow Peter C's advice and study this body of work
before you open your mouth about it.
I consider anything less that that unneccessary, useless, disturbing
and disrespectful to this project, and if I observe that happening I
will not hesitate for a second to argue very vocally for active
refusal of your person from anything related to this project, and
actually any other project as well.
You need to be constructive, or simply not post.
> It has new capabilities.
I don't think that's really true. But more importantly, you state that
you are ignorant about xorn, so you can't actually know what you are
talking about here, so you are just generating noise. Stop that.
Roland's goal for a xorn-based gnetlist is 1:1 compatibility with
existing use cases. He is actively soliciting feedback about anything
which does not yet work, and as can be seen from just the last few
days, he's also stunningly responsive in addressing new situations.
> It needs a new name.
I don't think that's required, but as Peter C already pointed out it
actually does have a new name already. I might have chosen another
name (maybe xgnetlist) but I think gnetlist2 is fine.
Kind regards
//Peter
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