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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:31:48 -0400
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] The state of gEDA/gaf (Was gEDA/PCBs diversity, Was:
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On 10/29/2012 06:42 AM, John Doty wrote:
> 
> On Oct 28, 2012, at 8:47 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> 
>> John D. will be quick to point out other work-flows and that he 
>> actually uses some. These arguments tend to pop up time and again. I 
>> did a poll on geda-user some time ago. It was probably 2010 or 2009. 
>> You can look it up in the archive. (gmane archive, that is). 
>> Results were not very surprising: Almost everybody does gschem->pcb. 
>> Some also do some other work-flows. IIRC somebody even reported to 
>> start with pcb without bothering with gschem in the first place.
> 
> 1. Popularity doesn't measure power. TeX isn't popular, but it sure is powerful.

  I'd say TeX is pretty popular.  The drooling masses don't use it, but
who cares?

             -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA