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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, Feb 11, 2017 at 12:56:39PM -0700, John Doty wrote:
> 
> On Feb 11, 2017, at 11:23 AM, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> >> as far as I can tell, nobody else understands it well enough to
> >> write a back end, unlike gnetlist proper.
> > 
> > How do you think that could change?
> 
> Well, gnetlist had, from the beginning, multiple people contributing back ends. But for years, others have complained they couldn’t contribute because of Scheme. Where are they? Is this new thing actually any more comprehensible than gnetlist to non-schemers?

We won't win here, John. People who really contribute, still send
their patches directly to me or on launchpad. You can see activity
in mainline for the last half a year and come to a
conclusion. Sadly, but nobody of the devs who worked on geda-gaf
before want to continue there.

-- 
  Vladimir