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Subject: Re: [geda-user] New experimental netlist features
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On Sep 3, 2015, at 12:44 PM, Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Markus Hitter (mah AT jump-ing DOT de) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> Am 03.09.2015 um 20:13 schrieb Roland Lutz:
>>> it's probably a good idea to wait
>> 
>> I feared it. I currently clean up the bug tracker a bit. There are patches waiting for more than 10 years now, bit-rotten beyond recognition. There is no "somebody else" who does it.
> 
> I have very limited time right now, but I will see if I can at least merge Xorn into the main gEDA repository tomorrow morning.  Without a wrapper, you will still have to call "xorn netlist” 

You should not call it gnetlist in any case. The user should choose which tool to use. You’ll never implement options like  -l or -m, so you’ll always be profoundly incompatible with gnetlist. And that’s fine: look to the future, not the past.

> instead of "gnetlist" and add a few additional command-line arguments depending on your configuration, but at least the code will be one place.

For configuration, perhaps you should use the new .ini file approach in 1.9, rather than the deprecated Scheme init files.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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