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On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, John Doty wrote:
>> The general-purpose tool for handling this kind of thing is ?make?.
>
> (Cool, we are back here! I so much expected this...)
>
> I did list the reasons why 'make' doesn't fully solve the problem, 
> thanks for reading that part.
>
> Anyway this feature is not for you. We all know you hate the project file 
> idea. Fortunately nobody proposed anything that'd force you to use it.


I think the fact that John's use case is much more complex than what you 
are currently modelling for is *exactly* why you two should be talking to 
each other.  A project file concept that can handle this kind of project 
(and handle it well, not just by adding a bunch of exceptions) is much 
more likely to be adopted by gEDA/gaf.