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Subject: Re: [geda-user] About reinventing the wheel, and how to avoid it
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On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 12:08 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 12, 2015, at 12:55 PM, John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/12/2015 11:53 AM, John Doty wrote:
>>> On Sep 12, 2015, at 10:25 AM, John Griessen<john AT ecosensory DOT com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> >On 09/12/2015 10:51 AM, John Doty wrote:
>>>>> >>Test cases are important, but I don’t think it’s necessary to have add-on modules maintained with the core sources in order to test them together.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >Why?  Roland made a clear case for that.
>>> Successful projects like Python keep core and add-ons separate.
>>
>> We don't have enough people to act like the python project.
>
> There are 51 megabytes of contributions from 83 contributors on gedasymbols.org. We’re *already* acting like the Python project, except we’re pretending we aren’t.

And gedasymbols is not well used, or well-tested, or particularly
accessible to the uninitiated.  It great to separate things into
modules but there's no point in not storing and distributing them
together with the core distribution.