Re: gEDA-user: Yet another netlister

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A.Burinskiy wrote:
> Dear gEDA community members,
> 
> I created yet another netlister for gschem. Netlister supports flattened 
> or hierarchical netlist, handles slotting and global net names. Will be 
> glad to hear any feedback. The source located in:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ynetlist/files/

I hate to complain when someone is contributing something which may be 
useful, but I have to wonder if netlister efforts could be better spent 
in fixing the various issues people have with gnetlist instead of 
inventing many more netlisters....  Here is my concern.  The gEDA 
community isn't all that large and there are fairly limited resources 
for it.  Having multiple netlisters seems to just produce the problem of 
too many places for identical bugs to creep in and spreading people too 
thin.

Is there anyone who has tried all 4 netlisters and would be in a 
position to maybe make a table that somehow gives a sane comparison 
between the 4?  That might be a useful way to help identify areas in 
each that need work.

Oh, lets not even think about how much work is caused if gschem needs to 
update its file format and there are N different parsers out there.

-Dan



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