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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 16:09:19 +0100 (CET)
From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gnetlist chaos
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On Sat, 11 Feb 2017, John Doty wrote:
> I wish Roland would not call his program gnetlist.

It is gnetlist.  Why call it by a different name?

> It’s based on a completely new foundation (“xorn”: don’t ask me what 
> that is or what it does, it’s very murky to me).

Xorn is a concept / a set of libraries to make gEDA's underlying object 
model cleaner.  I recently gave a talk where I explained the ideas:

https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/xorn_geda/

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