Re: gEDA-user: deprecating gschem2pcb and PCBboard backend (Dan McMahill)

[KURT PETERS <peterskurt@xxxxxxx>]

   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


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   > Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:01:31 -0400
   > From: Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
   > Subject: gEDA-user: deprecating gschem2pcb and PCBboard backend
   > To: gEDA user mailing list <geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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   > 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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