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Subject: Re: [geda-user] About reinventing the wheel, and how to avoid it
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>>>> It great to separate things into
>>>> modules but there's no point in not storing and distributing them
>>>> together with the core distribution.
>>>
>>> I think many would find a 50 MB distribution a bit much.
>>
>> By modern standards, this is minute.
>
> Oh, anybody can *store* it. But comprehend it?

Putting it somewhere else doesn't make it more comprehensible, just
harder to find
and use.

>>> Simply distributing a mixed bag of stuff with the core will not relieve confusion.
>>
>> Modules aren't just a mixed bag of stuff, they're pieces designed to work with
>> the core.  It's helpful if people know they exist and can try them easily.
>>
>> Gedasymbols is arguably a lot more mixed since the symbols are created in
>> different ways, but if they had some sort of common interface for
>> build/search etc.
>> I think it would be worth adding them also, since the lack of them is
>> another big
>> weakness of gEDA.
>>
>>> I also see the success of the core/addon approach in other >projects.
>>
>> They are much bigger projects, with established ways of finding the modules.
>> gEDA doesn't have any such way.
>
> We need a way.

Good luck creating one.

>> It's easier to just distribute them with
>> the core than make one and expect it to be adopted.
>
> I don’t think that’s an answer. Successful projects I’m aware of don’t do it that way.

I don't say it's the best possible answer, but it would be better than
the present situation and might actually get done.