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On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, John Doty wrote:
> Roland has actually reimplemented many (all?) of the standard gnetlist 
> back ends.

I translated the standard gnetlist backends, as well as the other backends 
I knew about, to Python and updated them to use the new API.  I certainly 
didn't reimplement them; on the contrary, I put much effort into keeping 
the differences as small as possible (and even went so far as to include 
the spurious space characters at the end of lines) as I have no way to 
tell if a different output would still be valid.

> The only place we disagree is whether xorn-gnetlist replaces gnetlist or 
> exists as an alternative.

It makes me sad that this is the only point about the netlister which is 
debated on this list.