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Date: Sun,  7 Mar 2010 13:37:47 -0500
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From: John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:09 PM,  <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
>> we've got fgb's wonderful program and I think we're crazy if we don't
>> build on that.
>
> A deserved compliment, certainly. =C2=A0Now to figure how to provide the
> grouping I believe is required in addition to the means for
> replication. =C2=A0And, if I'm not being stupid, some facility to make su=
re
> that the final product has at least some chance of working according
> to expectations. =C2=A0Can't expect fgb to deal with that :-)
>
> ++L
>

Wouldn't grouping be a matter of placing a "category" file in the
package? I'm reading "grouping" as the kind of divisions you get in
Ports, i.e. net, editor, util, language, etc.

John
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"Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike