Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/09/11/14:50:05
On Sep 11, 2015, at 12:23 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> It would be nice if you congratulated those who are making progress in
> pcb with as much fanfare as those who benefit your personal causes.
What Roland is doing is liberating, making geda-gaf more flexible.
>
>> 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...
>
> Yes, good thing you wrote some scripts to do something the tools
> should have been able to do for you.
The tools will never do everything. You complain that development resources are short, and then you sell a paradigm where the developers are responsible for doing everything a user might need. Then, you worry that those nasty lusers might use an API in a way you don’t like. You want to control users, but I can’t operate in your narrow space. You don’t want real users, you want passive consumers.
> I'd give you a shiny star to
> stick on your one-trick-pony but I'm all out.
I have my choice of ponies, and many other things. But geda-pcb is indeed a one-trick pony. Unfortunately, we don’t emphasize to potential users that it’s only one of the many layout (and other) tools geda-gaf can export to.
John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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