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On 2020-09-04 16:34, John Doty wrote:
>> On Sep 4, 2020, at 9:11 AM, Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org> wrote:
[..]
>> gEDA/gaf supports a variety of layout programs via netlister
>> backends, some of which you contributed yourself.  There's even
>> backends for SPICE and cascade simulation which doesn't involve
>> layout at all.
> 
> Yes, but there’s no new development happening here. I was the last
> holdout. There seems to be neither developer nor user interest in
> anything except PCB support.

I was interested in a SPICE back-end (only). As I needed a
few specific extensions, it proved to be easier to write
a back-end myself and customize the gschem symbols and attributes.

-marcel