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John Doty wrote:

>> It is broken as in
>> "I-consider-to-pull-because-cvs-is-a-such-a-PITA".
> 
> I understand the problems of cvs: that's why I use git for my
> development projects. But the gedasymbols cvs tree isn't a
> development tree, 

Building a viable library _is_ development. The very same reasons that 
make git so valuable for programming projects also apply for library 
building.


> it's an image of a website,

I see more like a lib with a semi automatically created HTML view. It 
is sort of an extremely specialized CMS. By the way, building websites 
is development, too. 


>> Seriously. Maintenance of my section at gedasymbols.org is getting
>> more and more painful as it grows.
> 
> Can you explain why in more detail? I'm puzzled.

For starters, CVS is slow. A simple check for updates takes minutes. 
As the lib grows, restructuring tends to involve more and more files. 
Now, cvs cannot move files. There is no rename of folders, either. You 
are forced to remove and recreate. History gets lost during the 
process.

 
> I'm getting hungry. We should talk some time about adding
> spice-prototype attributes to your symbol

IMHO, this only makes sense, if they are compllemented by a lib of 
spice models.

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Kai-Martin Knaak