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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] Buttons for automation (obligatory grab at our shared
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:30 AM,  <gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>
>>> - Here is a set of attributes that the user will need a dialog to
>>> configure
>>> (btw, look at the dialogs in PCB for the export HID's.  Those are not
>>> hard
>>> coded in the GTK or Lesstif HID's but are created on the fly).
>>> - Here is what should be run when the user clicks "simulate" or "send to
>>> pcb" or whatever.
>>
>>
>> I am in favore of this as long as these buttons are not actually in
>> the tools but instead in an added program to the suite that acts as a
>> project guide/manager or flow guide for new users.
>
>
> Please refer to:
>
> xgsch2pcb for the gschem->pcb workflow
>
> easyspice for gschem->simulation
>
> They are both available from Debian repositories as well (which suggests
> they are not bitrotten).

There are others out there.

> I can't judge how useful these tools are as I'm a console junkie living on
> Makefiles. I also like that gschem and pcb are decoupled. However, I used
> xgsch2pcb in a series of lectures I gave about 8 years ago. My students were

This is an expert tool for expert users. Most of the people who are
here now are here because they are also people who don't want to take
their hands off the keys.

> engineering students, all windows users. It did work, but I think they
> considered "the lack of complete integration" a bug, not a feature.

They were beginning users. At some point you have to know your
audience. I did not start with gEDA. I started with Electronics
Workbench and got burned by them after Multisim. I hated not being
able to script repetitive tests for stuff I was getting from other
people. I was still in school back then.

> I recall xgsch2pcb required dbus support in both gschem and pcb.

Yes I remember the fight over dbus vs ___ for communication.

> Regards,
>
> Igor2



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