On Jan 5, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2011 18:38:04 John Doty wrote: >> >> They're not especially bad. In that project "make clean; make" generates >> 2074 lines of chatter, only about 1/3 of them from gschem and gnetlist. >> The worst offender is pdflatex. >> >> You can see how a warning could easily be lost. >> > > That doesn't make it okay to deliberately break designs which currently work, > even if you don't think they deserve to. ;-)
Is there any evidence that there are any? In any case, in other areas of computing it is considered OK for behavior to change between versions of a tool for cases when the input is ambiguous. It's not like changing the default attribute promotion policy: that wasn't ambiguous. > > How about patching `gnetlist' to make less noise? A good idea, but not a fix, because so many other things in an automated flow are chattery. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ [email protected] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
