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On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 07:32:08AM +0600, Alexey Shaposhnikov wrote:
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> No, something much worse: required volume of work. Especially because now
> (is I can see from sources) there is no "official" way to parse new config files
> at startup instead of rereading at every movement.

Some work had been made by Peter Brett and then reverted
by Peter Clifton. I did not closely look at it, though.

There are three temporary branches in the geda-gaf repository,
which could probably shed some light on this:
  _config_api_migration_option1
  _config_api_migration_option2
  _reverted_config_migration
See also some related discussions at [1] and [2] and the last
paragraph of the message [3].

[1] https://lists.launchpad.net/geda-developers/msg00147.html
[2] https://lists.launchpad.net/geda-developers/msg00148.html
[3] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.geda.user/42029