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On Thu, 6 Jul 2017, John Doty wrote:
> Is there anybody except you that understands how to write a back end for 
> your gnetlist?

By now, the refactored code is 100% compatible with existing Scheme code. 
That is, you don't have to write a backend any differently than you did 
before.

> He’s using our traditional foundation, Scheme

Scheme is not "our traditional foundation", it's something which has been 
patched onto gEDA/gaf in an ugly way.  It seems to work for some people 
but it definitively doesn't make maintaining the code an easier task.

> to refactor and improve both schematic capture and netlisting.

That is what I don't get: I already did this, and if you could be bothered 
to look at the result, you had to agree that it is much easier both to 
understand and to use with your own code (formerly nearly unthinkable) 
than the old gnetlist code.

It took me a lot of time and effort to bring it into a well-readable form 
while keeping it perfectly functionally equivalent.  I don't have the 
impression that Vladimir is even trying to achieve this with his current 
approach.

Roland

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