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John Doty, From a workflow perspective it would help. The codes
structure is a whole other bag of worms.

DJ, You have added substantially to PCB but the issues we are citing
were there far far before your involvement. I know you are not a fan
of when people rip on PCB, I just want to be clear we are looking at
it and not you.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:46 AM, P. Taylor <phil AT plastitar DOT com> wrote:
> On 6/30/2015 10:19 AM, John Doty wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:59 AM, Evan Foss
>> (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com)<geda-user AT delorie DOT com>  wrote:
>>
>>> >John Doty : In the name of a more open workflow I was advocating PCB
>>> >changing/adding TSV as an accepted input format for the other
>>> >attributes I was suggesting. The idea being to break out of the
>>> >workflow issues you see in PCB.
>>> >
>>
>> Wouldn’t help in the least bit. The core issue with PCB is that it has no
>> coherent model of what a PCB is: it’s just a grab bag of “features” with no
>> foundation.
>
>
> John,
>
> I always enjoy hearing your outspoken comments on geda/PCB.  But isn't the
> indeterminate nature of PCB a good thing?  It's abstract _and_ it works for
> practical physical design.  And its easy to hack and hotwire for different
> situations.
>
> The foundation is clearly there: it's the code and the file formats.  It
> works and that's why we like it.
>
> There are highly determinate commercial offerings.  Yet PCB is the maximum
> software attainable by a small number of uncoordinated programmers,
> particularly when one considers that there are different desires and
> philosophies constantly at odds.
>
> Phil Taylor
>
>
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