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On Dec 22, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Peter Clifton =
(petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] =
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> When I first started working on gEDA, that it crashed with _annoying_
> regularity... we fixed LOADS of bugs there, and a lot of it was due to
> latent bugs exposed by changes in the glib memory manager. gEDA was
> always wrong, but it took external changes to convert "wrong but
> works", into "crashes and eats your work every 5 minutes". Do you
> recall those days?

Not really. It=92s always been pretty good in my flows. I, of course, =
think fixing bugs that lead to crashes is a highly virtuous activity.

>=20
> I have a dim memory of one particularly cruel crash, where it was
> triggered by the auto-save code backing up your work (I may also have
> just made that up!).

The one thing that led to many corrupted schematics in one of my =
projects was a change in the attribute promotion policy, promoting =
attributes that I had intended to control in heavy symbols. That made a =
real mess. I suppose that the developer who made the change thought it =
would be helpful, but it was a naughty thing to do.

>=20
> I think you often confuse my thoughts on better "integration" or
> better "interoperability" with producing an all-in-one closed
> tool-chain like KiCAD. Nope.. yuck, yucky. (And IMO, we ought to rip
> out all the flattened net-list, PCB like work-flow specific hacks out
> of gnetlist).

Except that most layout tools (not just pcb) take flattened netlists as =
input. So, that=92s a generally useful capability.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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