X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:22:27 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: igor2 AT igor2priv To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Debug: to=geda-user AT delorie DOT com from="gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu" From: gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu Subject: Re: [geda-user] Revert "Reset refdes number to the question mark when parts are copied" In-Reply-To: <871u4vvmxb.fsf@harrington.peter-b.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <1378645856 DOT 7052 DOT 5 DOT camel AT pcjc2lap> <201309102159 DOT 42436 DOT ad252 AT freeelectron DOT net> <871u4vvmxb DOT fsf AT harrington DOT peter-b DOT co DOT uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Peter TB Brett wrote: > 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 >> 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! > FYI, I've started replacing autotools in my PCB fork. It took less than 1 day to get scconfig generate Makefiles so that a workign pcb executable can be compiled. I expect another day to fully finish it. Regards, Tibor