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On 02/16/2017 09:03 AM, John Doty wrote:
>> We currently have 4 gEDA projects that will need to interact in random ways:
>>
>> - two variants of gschem/gnetlist/geda/gaf
>>
>> - two variants of pcb
>
> You left out Icarus: it’s also a gEDA project. And then, gschem is the schematic capture of choice for many ngspice users. There are many less trodden paths: “gnetlist —list-backends” will show you some. gEDA is much broader than your vision.
>
> You complain of politics, but when you leave users out of your vision, you are engaging in politics.

   Much like you leave entire (large!) classes of users out of your vision.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA