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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 13:58:09 -0600
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On Sep 11, 2015, at 1:41 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> 
>> 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?
> 
> For the record, I don't think that.
> 

You wrote:

> I meant, there may be internal
> functions that were never intended to be official (or even public),
> that someone discovered and (ab)used in a workflow.  There must be a
> way to let that API change, despite its use, else we'd be unexpectedly
> locked into something we don't want.


John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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