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On 07/09/2015 12:23 PM, John Doty wrote:
>>>>> If you’re just making changes until a diff shows nothing, it doesn’t matter whether you make them upstream or downstream. Just quit when you have a match!
>>>>
>>>> This sounds reasonable to me.  So the common denominator is to load a "target netlist" into gschem and show the differences between the current state and the target state, either by highlighting them in the schematic or by showing a diff?  This shouldn't be too difficult to implement.
>>>
>>> Not into gschem. Keep gschem clean, please. I just displayed a diff in a terminal window.
>>
>>  Why are you assuming that adding this (or anything else!) will
>> automatically make gschem "dirty"?
>>
>>  First, maybe such new functionality could be made a configure-time
>> option.  Second, and perhaps more intuitively...if you don't like a new
>> feature, don't use it.
> 
> Features interact, so misfeatures get in the way. Box selection of groups of components in gschem used to be simple and straightforward, but added “features” have made it much more difficult.

  Ok, fair enough.  I could be wrong, but that sounds like a bug to me.

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA