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Subject: Re: off-topic: daydreaming about modularization (was: Re: [geda-user] Buttons for automation (obligatory grab at our shared 3rd rail) Re: [geda-user] Antifork)
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On Aug 25, 2015, at 6:45 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> To a point I could see an argument to be made that gschem and PCB have
> different goals and the more convoluted goal of PCB leads to more
> convoluted objects.

I don’t think that’s true at all. Starting from simple primitive objects, gschem can compose arbitrarily complicated objects containing arbitrarily complicated objects with embedded or attached metadata of arbitrary complexity at all levels. But pcb has only one (restricted) level of composition. That’s what drives it to have complex, inflexible primitives.

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