Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/09/11/14:03:43
On Sep 11, 2015, at 11:32 AM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
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>> I would think, given that you complain a great deal about how gEDA
>> has trouble attracting users, that you might want to pay attention
>> to what its problems are from an actual user's perspective.
>
> You have stated many times that you are not a PCB user. I do listen
> to PCB users.
So you don’t really want to attract new users: only existing users count. And then, you bemoan the fact that you can’t attract new users. And you blame the messenger.
> What they ask for is not the same as what you think we
> should be doing.
Of course not: they’ve bought into the paradigm. The ones you want to attract are the ones who haven’t, and from where I sit it looks like they never will unless there’s a geda-layout whose design matches and complements geda-gaf. But you don’t want to hear that.
On the other hand, three cheers for Roland, who has apparently made an even more flexible netlister for geda-gaf!
But now, I have a request to collapse a three board stack down to one. Good thing I used pins2gsch.awk to enforce common naming of the nets connected to the stacking connectors, and use a toolkit that makes refdes munging pretty trivial...
John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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