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Subject: Re: [geda-user] About reinventing the wheel, and how to avoid it
From: John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com>
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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:37:09 -0600
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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.
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