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From: "Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 05:35:07PM +0200, Bert Timmerman (bert DOT timmerman AT xs4all DOT nl) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
...
> John Doty is right in that gschem will not lock you into pcb.
> 
> gschem and gnetlist do give *you* the choice where to go for *your* next
> step in the workflow *you* want to follow.
> 
> pcb is just one possible further step, and osmond, verilog, vhdl (ghdl),
> gnucap or ngspice are other possible steps (see "man gnetlist").

While I agree with you here, there is another side of the
coin. There are netlister's backends nobody uses and nobody
reports their state. A few months ago one user has reported vams
is broken. Looking at it I've discovered it is broken about a
decade ago. No special tests were made at the time of its creation
so just nobody knows...

I am saying about this because my intention, which I am going to
implement, is stripping our repository by removing various
obsolete/unused/non-working thigs. Of course, I'll ask our users
here about any of them, if/when I do this.

-- 
  Vladimir