X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:54:12 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: igor2 AT igor2priv To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Debug: to=geda-user AT delorie DOT com from="gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu" From: gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu Subject: Re: [geda-user] Re: Project file In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20180723152807 DOT 13d27cadcd023b63aa3fd9c0 AT gmail DOT com> <20180723174658 DOT 32979841DEBA AT turkos DOT aspodata DOT se> <20180723195942 DOT 605CB841DEBA AT turkos DOT aspodata DOT se> <20180724132731 DOT 76074841DEBC AT turkos DOT aspodata DOT se> <20180724161712 DOT f0082dda1044e41179fa82f0 AT gmail DOT com> <20180724145644 DOT 122BA841DEC5 AT turkos DOT aspodata DOT se> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, Roland Lutz wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, John Doty wrote: >>> The general-purpose tool for handling this kind of thing is ?make?. >> >> (Cool, we are back here! I so much expected this...) >> >> I did list the reasons why 'make' doesn't fully solve the problem, thanks >> for reading that part. >> >> Anyway this feature is not for you. We all know you hate the project file >> idea. Fortunately nobody proposed anything that'd force you to use it. > > > I think the fact that John's use case is much more complex than what you are > currently modelling for is *exactly* why you two should be talking to each > other. A project file concept that can handle this kind of project (and > handle it well, not just by adding a bunch of exceptions) is much more likely > to be adopted by gEDA/gaf. Good, thanks. My original message was: "we have a project file already implemented, it seems Luis has a problem where it could help, and if gschem wants to join, I can support". For this your above answer translates to a "won't join". Case closed from my side, have a nice day! Regards, Igor2