gEDA-dev: [RFC] Sort before write

[Ales Hvezda]

[snip]
>Sort all elements by some function of position before writing to disk. 
>libgeda would be able to read unsorted files, and unchanged files would not
>be written out (as you'd expect).  The exact comparison function used isn't
>important, as long as semantically identical schematics have identical
>on-disk representation.

	That there is a comparison function or a well defined sorting 
order is quite important.  Since you are proposing an intelligent sort,
I'm okay with this functionality.  A dumb sort would not have have been
a good thing.

								-Ales