Hi Jeorge, And this doesn't just apply to open source! If you are a dedicated user of Cadence ConceptHDL, then you learn pretty quickly to have perl and other scripts where you exit the software, delete all the *.b and
*.c files, automatically do edits on the .a files, and then reopen the software and do a hard save of the project. (You have to delete the .b binary files, and .c files because these are compiled from the .a, but have precedence over the .a (ascii) files.)And users spend mucho bucks for this type of thing!
Charlie