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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] About reinventing the wheel, and how to avoid it
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Date:	Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:39:25 +0200
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Am 11.09.2015 um 17:51 schrieb John Doty:
>  Where geda-gaf uses attributes in mostly unrestricted ways, geda-pcb *enumerates* a restricted subset of possibilities. Adding a small subset of possible layer types to this approach has been cheered as a great advance here. Sorry, Nicklas, it makes me shudder.

Shudder as much as you want, but stop writing such nonsense. gEDA/pcb
isn't about theoretical models, it's about hardware and manufacturing
processes fabricating such hardware. As such a limited set of hardware
types is not only perfectly fine, it's even a distinguishing advantage.

Don't believe it? Well, then use gschem to draw a layout and send the
result to a PCB house.

Bah. The disadvantage of letting everybody write to the list is that
people can publish whatever bizarre crap they like. And other people
might take such nonsense seriously, so one has to answer it. "It was
written on the gEDA list, so it must be right". Or worse: "these people
on the gEDA list have no clue, so better avoid gEDA".


Markus

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