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From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] New experimental netlist features
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On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Markus Hitter (mah AT jump-ing DOT de) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> The question of all questions is, when can Xorn enter gEDA and replace 
> gnetlist, isn't it?

The only thing which is missing right now is a Scheme wrapper which 
executes the gafrc and gnetlistrc configuration files, reads geda.conf, 
and passes the appropriate command-line flags to the netlister.

> The netlister is one of the parts which should "just work", behind the 
> user visible scenes, so I don't think it's neccessary it comes with 
> every single feature the precedessor has.

But even better, it does!  It's basically the same code, so (except for 
the inevitable bugs) there should only be some minor, well-documented 
differences.

> In fact it may be a good opportunity to get rid of some old cruft.

What in particular do you consider worth getting rid of?

Roland