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From: Markus Hitter <mah AT jump-ing DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] Thoughts on mechanical CAD interaction...
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:58:12 +0200
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Am 29.08.2013 um 20:57 schrieb Peter C.J. Clifton:

> _outputting_ legal STEP representations is a whole lot eaiser than  
> importing 3D models

That's indeed a good reason to use STEP. Having STEP, OpenSCAD  
exporters might even become obsolete.

>> If I had a free wish, I'd ask you to move this branch to the central
>> repo, so everybody can test and develop. :-)
>
> I won't do that currently, as I do not stick to the "never re-write  
> history" model which is important to us in the official  
> repository. ...
>
> The repository IS publicly available, so its location is not of  
> real importance for those wanting to test and/or contribute. The  
> main blocking item is that the majority of the branches there are  
> based upon development code which is not clean enough to merge  
> upstream yet.

Bug/feature branches in the official repo are rewritten often  
anyways, if just for rebasing them to follow other developments.


Markus

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