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On Thu, 16 Feb 2017, Peter Clifton (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

>https://xkcd.com/927/
>(Just because - funny ;))
>

Good one!

It's currently exactly like that - until you invest that 1..2 hours to 
copy the code in pcb and the gnetlist guys invest their 30 minutes to 
modify the printfs ("format" lines) in the scm. Because from that point on 
we have a 16th format that actually does make our software/ecosystem work 
instead of the other 15 that don't.

>Really a shame there isn't some defacto standard -everyone- (including
>commercial eda) uses.

Sure, but I don't care if commercial EDA or everyone comes with us.

The point is exactly this: do something small and realistic, that we 
(and everyone else) realistically can implement, even today, and solves 
the problem.

Let's make the barriers as low as possible so it's easier to join.

But let's make _ourselves_ to adapt it first. Let's not wait for everyone 
_else_ to first adapt something.

Finally, why I started to write this mail: I'd like to make statistics for 
the tEDAx web page so I'd like to ask you the same boring question for pcb 
mainline: "yes" or "no" (to this specific thing)? This could also cut this 
thread short.