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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 22:25:12 +0100 (CET)
From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] graphical not overriding netlister
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Girvin Herr (gherrl AT fastmail DOT com) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> I am not sure what or where I can get the "master" branch.

The process of building gEDA/gaf from the repository is explained here:
http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:gaf_building_git_version

In short, if you are using Debian, the following commands should do the 
trick:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get build-dep geda
   git clone git://git.geda-project.org/geda-gaf.git
   cd geda-gaf
   ./autogen.sh
   ./configure --prefix=$HOME/geda
   make
   make install

> For some years, I have been lobbying for a new gEDA release, but got 
> resistance that gEDA is now perfect and does not need any new 
> development or new releases.

On the contrary, gEDA is far from perfect.

For a long time, the problem was that the repository contained several 
unfinished features which no-one volunteered to finish.  I'm currently 
working on cleaning things up, removing some parts, finishing other parts 
myself, so we can have a working release again.  Maybe I'm setting the 
goal too high here, I don't know.  Since most of the critical problems are 
solved now, I think I'll be able to roll a new release soon(-ish).

> Since there were only four of these terminals giving me problems, my 
> solution was to re-draw the symbols as a real graphic without any 
> intelligence, leaving the net node electrically hanging. The net still 
> has a pull-up resistor connected to it, so it has more than one node.

That sounds like a good workaround, but what were you trying to do in the 
first place?

Roland