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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:00:07 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] file format cooperation
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On Tue, 13 Jul 2021, karl AT aspodata DOT se [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Roland:
>> I think that's difficult.  lepton-netlist already diverges so far from
>> gnetlist that you can't expect to get a consistent result.  Unless there
>> is some effort to adhere to a common testsuite, I don't think this is
>> going to be successful.
>
> I'm sorry to hear that, that means that the two project would continue
> to drift apart till you're locked in either on of them and you cannot
> share files between them. Maybe I should start a third variant to show
> how unfortunate that is.

Oh, you are referring to xkcd?
   https://xkcd.com/927/

But really, the question isn't so much about compatibility between current 
gnetlist and lepton-netlist; the question is about compatibility of either 
of them with existing projects.  At least that's how I see it.