I'm not only for it; I think it should be DELETED, instead of just deprecated. BTW, what would the process be for executing it when it's deprecated. In other words, would the user get a message saying it's deprecated and will go away (Deleted) some time in the future? Kurt
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:01:31 -0400 > From: Dan McMahill <d...@mcmahill.net> > Subject: gEDA-user: deprecating gschem2pcb and PCBboard backend > To: gEDA user mailing list <geda-user@moria.seul.org> > Message-ID: <4a4a8b3b.2090...@mcmahill.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Anyone have any objections to deprecating the gschem2pcb script and the > PCBboard gnetlist backend that is used by that script? > > As far as I know nobody uses either of those anymore. Note that I'm > talking about "gschem2pcb" and *not* "gsch2pcb", the latter being what > probably everyone uses. > > Why you ask? Because gschem2pcb doesn't really offer anything that > gsch2pcb doesn't and the latter is what's used, developed, and > supported. The existence of the former I think just serves to confuse > new users and PCBboard additionally is there to annoy developers by it > being in the test suite. The PCBboard backend is very similar to the > gsch2pcb backend but again, the latter is seeing development and the > former isn't. > > -Dan
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