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On Sep 12, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

>>>> 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.
> 
> All I am hearing is 83 people have accumulated a lot of contributions
> and that we are perhaps squandering an opportunity by not finding a
> way to verify them and package them in a release of some kind.

This may be relevant:

http://www.cpan.org/misc/ZCAN.html

Or maybe not, I don’t know. But we are getting back to the original topic, sort of ;-)

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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