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To: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Parameter substitution
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Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 20:27:03 +0200
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Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org> writes:

> 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.

A discussion that never happend. :-(

> 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/

-- 
Stephan