gEDA-dev: Fate of "generic_text_input dialog" in x_dialog.c

[Peter Clifton]

On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 05:45 -0500, Paul Tan wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am curious about the departed "generic_text_input dialog"
> functions which used to live in geda-gscheme/src/x_dialog.c.
> If I am not mistaken, did Dan McMahill create them and
> decide not to use them? Or someone else did?  Does anyone
> know the reason for their creation and not-used later on?
> Thanks.

Removed because they were unused (by Werner Hoch).

They originated here:

http://git.gpleda.org/?p=gaf.git;a=commitdiff;h=b93bf24c67a0391d72c29ce2853a45ffa9b0d830

As I understand it, that old autonumber code would be gone now.


PS.. the git tools are great at digging this kind of history out! I have
no idea if I'd have been able to find that out in a CVS repository.

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