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On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 7:01 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 3, 2015, at 10:37 AM, Markus Hitter (mah AT jump-ing DOT de) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> Am 03.09.2015 um 15:32 schrieb Roland Lutz:
>>> You can clone the repository from
>>>
>>>    git://github.com/rlutz/xorn.git  (branch "experimental")
>>
>> The question of all questions is, when can Xorn enter gEDA and replace gnetlist, isn't it?
>
> Gnetlist should stay for the foreseeable future. I’m not the only user with custom scripts for particular purposes.

+1
I have documentation I packed with designs and scripts that gets
handed off to people who are already in over their heads.

>> 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.
>
> I disagree completely. Gnetlist is the core of gEDA’s power. The ability to customize the extraction of various data products is what makes gEDA special. The point of having a toolkit is that the tools are user-visible, giving power to the user.
>
>> In fact it may be a good opportunity to get rid of some old cruft.
>
> Well, of course, the nice thing about a toolkit is the choice of tools. Xorn looks impressive, but I haven’t had time to study scripting it. I think Xorn makes sense as the future-looking tool, but I can’t see it replacing customized gnetlist-based flows in existing projects. I’m still coding Scheme. I agree that full backward-compatibility (whatever that might mean) is not a sensible goal for Xorn. And what constitutes “old cruft”? Maybe last year I would have classified the PADS back end as “old cruft”, but now it's important for one of my projects.
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> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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>
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