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On Sat, 5 Sep 2015, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:

> John Doty wrote:
>
>> Why would they want gEDA over kiCAD?
>> Shouldn?t we be promoting our strengths?
>
> Unfortunately, strengths don't make a deal if there are show stopping
> weaknesses. Quick reminder (in no particular order):
> * the out-of-the-box library of symbols is barely usable

Agreed. We had a long discussion about this on the list with no 
measurable results afaik. Btw, I've sent you a list of suggestions back 
than for your essential lib too, mostly minor things.

I tried to address this in pcb-rnd, but it obviously doesn't fly without a 
cleanup on the sym side. Anyway, I have parametric and static footprint 
support for anything common enough for a newbie to meet in the first few 
months probably, without redundancy and exotic parts. All accessible on 
the web too. 95 footprints total.

> * there is no way to do blind and buried vias

Maybe that'd be my next big projet in pcb-rnd, I'm not yet sure. The main 
problem is that I'm not using these at all.

> ? no infrastructure to do back annotation

I made good progress on this yesterday. I have most of the GUI addons in 
gschem I needed for this and almost finished writing the code that parses 
my back-annotation format.

Regards,

Igor2

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