Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/12/30/00:52:54
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:14 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 9:54 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
>>
>>> After actually hacing gschem, I realized your idealistic view on how good the foundations are is just a dream.
>>
>> It?s not perfect but that isn?t a reason to make it worse. It?s pretty good compared to a lot of software.
>
> Igor2 why are we doing this? Suppose for a minute we somehow got John
> to concede defeat what would we really have won here?
I really think there are some basic concepts went wrong in geda/gschem
(about networks, how much gschem should know about attributes and flows,
whether gschem->gnetlist should be unidirectional).
I really believe that one day these should be talked over. By those who
understand how the whole thing works and are capable of making the
necessary modifications.
I think this can not happen as long as John loudly blocks any attempt in
this direction. I don't say it will happen instantly if John stopped this,
but I am pretty sure it won't until that. It's just that any attempt on
any useful discussion on this rapidly sinks into the "toolkit vs.
integrated" agenda pushed by him and people lose interest.
I think the way forward is to convince John to make a fork. This would
relieve him from having to watch for change proposals on the mailing list
and would relieve potential programmers from the noise and derailed
threads. (I'm still laughing at that he takes even pcb-related ideas as
direct threat to gschem.)
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