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On Sat, 23 Jul 2016, Stephan Böttcher wrote:
> There is a patch I submitted a long time ago to gnetlist, implementing
> functionality that I depend on, but that was never looked at by anybody.
> This is very discouraging, when it comes to invest time for coding.

Do you mean the patch for parameter substitution[1,2]?  I'd guess that, 
since that's quite a relevant change, the developers didn't want to just 
apply it without prior discussion.

I had a quick glance at the patch, and it seems what you have been doing 
is roughly equivalent to the parameter substitution patch I submitted a 
while ago in the experimental netlister feature branch[3].  I just rebased 
that branch to the current HEAD and pushed it as "home/rlutz/experimental" 
to the geda-gaf repository, so you can use it right now by using that 
branch and setting

   (set! use-new-frontend #t)

in your gnetlistrc file.  The user-visible differences to your patch are 
that substitution values are defined with "subst=NAME=value" and 
referenced with "$(NAME)".

> I am also discouraged by the requirement to use a lauchpad account,
> which I don't have, and do not want to have.

If it hadn't been for this requirement, I'd have reported gEDA bugs much 
earlier.  Maybe we should change that policy?

Roland


[1] http://www.ieap.uni-kiel.de/et/people/stephan/rpirena/gnetlist-parameters.patch
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/geda/+bug/911440
[3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.geda.user/47097/

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