Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/09/06/10:39:19
On 09/05/2015 07:27 PM, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Forks are overtaking main-line already. We'd do better to
> try to ensure that all the scripts make it into the distribution somehow
> in such a way that people can find them.
Hear, hear.
On 09/05/2015 09:11 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:>> Given that we don't have an installer
for Linux, we would have to say
>> >we don't support Linux either.
> I don't know why but this made me laugh for a second.
Allright! There's been so much down tone talk lately... Constructive and joking is so.... much better.
On 09/05/2015 10:08 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:> I really believe in having a solid C core and a separate, multi-language
script plugin system. Core functionality should go
> without scripts. Configuration should be declarative and simple, even if it costs a custom mini-language. Scripts should be
> reserved for user addons.
Sounds OK, but costs are always hard to get action on in this crowd that has other important to do's
before code development for tools for no money income. C is going to be around for at least another ten years:-)
Or, at least until 50 cent micros have plenty of nonvolatile program and data RAM to compile go, erlang, haskell, etc.
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