X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-TCPREMOTEIP: 207.224.51.38 X-Authenticated-UID: jpd AT noqsi DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: [geda-user] About reinventing the wheel, and how to avoid it From: John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> In-Reply-To: <55F32375.2020505@ecosensory.com> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:37:09 -0600 Message-Id: <FC9C2933-89CE-44FD-A9EE-CA2721405ACE@noqsi.com> References: <alpine DOT DEB DOT 2 DOT 00 DOT 1509111150410 DOT 2482 AT lichen> <B94E2C24-8B63-46FC-A551-9E4B14B817C9 AT noqsi DOT com> <201509111624 DOT t8BGOPYV000685 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <F24E14C9-8427-4688-A27A-1EBE0F669995 AT noqsi DOT com> <201509111732 DOT t8BHWnF7005271 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <960028A6-F16B-4276-B838-E9F0D2959A6F AT noqsi DOT com> <55F32375 DOT 2020505 AT ecosensory DOT com> To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id t8BJbGRx021825 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sep 11, 2015, at 12:54 PM, John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com> wrote: > On 09/11/2015 01:03 PM, John Doty wrote: >> But now, I have a request to collapse a three board stack down to one. Good thing I used pins2gsch.awk to enforce common naming of the nets connected to the stacking connectors, and use a toolkit that makes refdes munging pretty trivial... > > That's really great for you John, and nobody is going to make changes that take that away from the tools. > You�re saying that when the #1 gEDA developer thinks its a good thing to prevent users from using the tools in ways the developers don�t approve of that I shouldn�t worry? John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ jpd AT noqsi DOT com