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Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 20:42:52 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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On Thu, 4 May 2017, Girvin Herr (gherrl AT fastmail DOT com) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Not to keep beating a dead horse here, since I have asked this question 
> several times in the past on this forum: when is gEDA-GAF going to be 
> updated and the latest made stable and released?

The problem right now is that there is some half-finished development 
merged into master, and Vladimir made some changes in his fork with which 
I'd like to keep mainline geda-gaf at least compatible.  So there are some 
things which would need to be figured out first:

- What should be done regarding the progress in having dockable gschem 
dialogs?  Is someone willing to finish the work, should it be considered 
“finished” as-is and shipped in a stable release, or should it be moved to 
a feature branch, shipping the last stable UI?

- What should be done regarding the changes in the configuration system? 
The current state is somewhat inconsistent, having both the traditional 
.gafrc-style files and the new geda.conf files at once.  Is someone 
willing to finish the work, should it be considered “stable” as-is and 
released, or should the release have the last stable .gafrc-only 
configuration?

- What changes in Vladimir's code affect interoperability with geda-gaf 
and should be accounted for?

I've been working on the interoperability issue but haven't been able to 
review all changes yet.  (@Vladimir: Documentation of what exactly changed 
would help greatly here. *hint*)

Roland

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