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From: Peter TB Brett <peter AT peter-b DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] Revert "Reset refdes number to the question mark when parts are copied"
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:26:40 +0100
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al davis writes:

> On Tuesday 10 September 2013, John Doty wrote:
>> Basic actions should be simple: the programmer should never
>> assume complex intent for a simple action.
>
> Tell that to the developers of gnu autotools.
>
> Over the last few years, by far the majority of the time spent=20
> by gnucap developers is related to autotools cruft.
>

That sucks.  :-( Since I went through and redid the whole geda-gaf
autotools setup back in 2009 we haven't really had any major autotools
issues at all!

                              Peter

P.S. I quite like autotools.

=2D-=20
Dr Peter Brett <peter AT peter-b DOT co DOT uk>

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