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On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, John Doty wrote: > Gschem and gnetlist are old, complex programs that nevertheless have > great flexibility. No individual user or developer really understands > all of their capabilities. In the process of refactoring gnetlist, I grokked it thoroughly. (IOW, I don't think there is an aspect of gnetlist which I don't understand. This doesn't apply to the backends, though.) > The potential for inadvertent harm when modifying them is great. This is why I was very careful when porting gnetlist to Python/Xorn, and treated porting and refactoring as two strictly separate steps. The first version of the netlister which I posted on this list was ported, but almost not refactored; the resemblance to gnetlist was much closer.
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