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Subject: [geda-user] Proposal: don't install less-used utility scripts
From: Gareth Edwards <gareth AT edwardsfamily DOT org DOT uk>
To: "geda-user AT delorie DOT com" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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There's been a series of bugs filed on some of the older and less-used
fringe components of gaf over the last couple of years, and we've had
little appetite for devs/maintainers to come forward and look after
them.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/geda/+bug/1218836

is a good example.

Here's the list I came up with:

- convert_sym
- gmk_sym
- olib
- sarlacc_schem
- sarlacc_sym
- smash_megafile
- pads_backannotate
- pcb_
- sw2asc
- gpstoimage
- gnet_hier_verilog.sh

I'm proposing to a) not build and install these to <prefix>/bin by
default but b) install the sources of these utilities into:

<prefix>/share/gEDA/contrib

so that they are still available for people that need them, but we're
not polluting <prefix>/bin with stuff that's more or less
unsupportable. I think it also means we can be a little more relaxed
about documenting them.

Almost all of these are for interoperabilty with ancient commercial
EDA systems or have been superseded by other capabilities in the
current releases so I think the number of users who need them is
limited.

Any comments on this before I forge ahead with the infrastructure work
in the build? And do I have the list right?

Cheers
Gareth