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Date:	Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:20:11 -0400
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From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To:	geda-user AT delorie DOT com
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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] About reinventing the wheel, and how to avoid it
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Reply-To:	geda-user AT delorie DOT com

> I believe that what DJ is saying is that you should feel free to do
> that, but if he changes the API and your software stops working,
> that's not going to keep him awake at night.

Yes, that.

*Especially* if you went out of your way to bypass the published API
and dig into the unpublished internals.

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