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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] The state of gEDA/gaf (Was gEDA/PCBs diversity, Was: Pin hole size)
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Evan Foss wrote:

>  If people are going to be typing let them type
> documentation.

Well, I did rewrite the documentation of the command line parameters 
of pcb. At a hint of a developer here on the list, I moved the 
information into the source and adapted a system that was already in 
place for the documentation of actions. I submitted the changes in two 
sets -- first a patch to the perl script that builds the 
documentation. The submission was greeted by silence. No welcome, no 
comments, no objections. When I pinged this list weeks later, the 
patch was accepted. So I worked on the content and sent a second patch 
set. Again, nothing. I pinged, still nothing. When I asked again, 
IIRC, several weeks later, I was told by a developer, that he did not 
like the way I adapted the perl file. I did it in a minimalistic way 
that hooked into the processing of the action processing. He proposed 
a "big" solution. However, by that time, my personal summer of code 
was over and day job projects did not allow for extensive perl 
learning session experiments.

Result:
1) The manual is still outdated. None of the options pcb happily tells 
you about om "pcb -h" match, what the current version of the manual 
says:
 http://pcb.geda-project.org/pcb-cvs/pcb.html#Command_002dLine-Options

2) I decided to not engage myself again in ways that are at the mercy 
of geda developers.

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Kai-Martin Knaak